Ford Blitz Restoration/Rebuild

[Private_collector]

Thanks mate! I have also been enlightened by a fellow MLU'er that it is used on the carrier part of diff assembly. It would make sense to have one bearing fit more than one purpose. I am slowly amassing quite a list of bearings & seals that I want to replace.

I discovered yesterday that the welded on brake backing plate (driver side) is also marked RF. So is the left hand side! That means I already have my replacement for the one I will be cutting off, but will need to find a LF one.

I'll post a few photos of the last couple of days work, later tonight, including the damage I found around several teeth of the crown wheel. Something catastrophic has occured some point in the past, but seems to have been rectified. No obvious issues found by me and my father-in-law yesterday. We suspect a big failure of one or both bearings, causing the crown wheel to smack into the casing in two places. Yikes! Must have made quite some noise when it happened. Lots of metal filings in bottom of the casing.