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i have three strealth tranny's at the moment.

in the manual it shows a spring behind the thrust bearing. while rebuilding my 10t diff i noticed that it didn't have one.
so i tore open another stealth and it didn't have one either.

i rebuilt the 10t's the way it came apart and it's buttery smooth, is the spring necessary?

i didn't open up the one in my ce to check if it had it, but the other two (which are new to me and i this was the first time i took them apart) are missing this spring.

the spring isn't behind the thrust balls, it's in the other outdrive behind the t-nut.

thats what i meant. it's not there but the diff feels perfect.

without the spring, you'd have to crank down on the screw to actually tighten the diff. can you run it like that, yes. but if your car/truck pushes like a dump truck in corners, and you can't dial it out, you know what's wrong.

i bet all your really feeling is the diff balls rolling on the diff rings. hold the outdrives stationary with 2 screwdrivers through the slots in the outdrives and try and to turn the diff gear.

hmm, mabey it's stuck in there, because when i took everything apart it wasn't in the pile of parts.
but when i put it back together and tightend the screw the diff feels perfect, not locked and not too loose.

i'm going to have to tear it down again and check.

The spring may be jammed up in the outdrive.

Ruffy wrote:The spring may be jammed up in the outdrive.

That happened to me with my T3. I thought I lost the spring and looked all over the place for it. I didn't figure out it was stuck in the outdrive until I put a new spring in there and couldn't get the screw to thread through.