Q: Diff case

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PiLLLe
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Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:32 pm

I asked a lots of people and they just confused me :)
I was told that the medium/big case diffs are those with diagonaly places screws for filing and draining oil and then again I was told that 3,25 diffs came only in medium/big case and now i'm confused. I have 3.25 and 3.91 and they look the same to me :)

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So my question is which one is it? Small Medium/Big

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Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:02 pm

I have never sen a diff like that,so I am going for Big!

Small has six bolts holding the rear cover,medium has 8,both filler and drain are pretty much in line with each other.
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Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:27 pm

The pictures here will show you what small and medium look like:

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/inde ... fferential

Where did you get the 3.25 from?
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Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:11 am

So judging by the photos above I have a small case.

Where did I get 3.25... My friend had it laying around for many years... That diff changed hans so many times that it had more owners than some honda civics:D I welded it like 6 or maybe 7 years ago and it went lost so exact origin is unknown:D

Bummer I was hoping it was a big one so i I could sell it for big money:D

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:12 am

So judging by the photos above I have a small case.

Where did I get 3.25... My friend had it laying around for many years... That diff changed hans so many times that it had more owners than some honda civics:D I welded it like 6 or maybe 7 years ago and it went lost so exact origin is unknown:D

Bummer I was hoping it was a big one so i I could sell it for big money:D

Tnx
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