Installing Quaife ATB - Clio 172 - help

[griffonu]

Hello,

just received - hurray! - the Quaife ATB for my Clio 172 MK2. The gearbox off the care, open and so on. The problem is with the crown wheel. Am I supposed to get the crown wheel off the stock diff and put it on the Quaife? I guess this is the way to go, but any hints about how is this achieved?

Is it posisble to send the diff back to Quaife and have a crown wheel supplied and put on the diff by them? This would really be a last resort solution, as I'm not in UK and it would take AGES to achieve, but still, if I can't get off the crown wheel from the stock diff...

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks a ton!

-Wheeler

 

[GodSpeed]

Hello,

just received - hurray! - the Quaife ATB for my Clio 172 MK2. The gearbox off the care, open and so on. The problem is with the crown wheel. Am I supposed to get the crown wheel off the stock diff and put it on the Quaife? I guess this is the way to go, but any hints about how is this achieved?

Is it posisble to send the diff back to Quaife and have a crown wheel supplied and put on the diff by them? This would really be a last resort solution, as I'm not in UK and it would take AGES to achieve, but still, if I can't get off the crown wheel from the stock diff...

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks a ton!

-Wheeler

You will need some help from a machine shop to make the slots for the steel balls. Preferably they use spark-erosion cutting for the best result. You may as well give them the stock diff at the same time as they are to make the slots. They preferably use a lathe to take away the material holding the crown wheel from the inside. This way you will not have to use violence to get it off.

Good luck,

 

[griffonu]

They should really invent a method of sending a pint of beer over the net!

Thanks a lot, m8!

-Dreamer

 

[drhowser]

send it back to quaife and they will fit it for you, they did for me anyway

 

[griffonu]

send it back to quaife and they will fit it for you, they did for me anyway

Basically it would mean sending them the stock diff and their diff. I don't even want to think about the cost of sending 2 diffs from Bucharest (my place) to UK and back

Anyway, the main problem at this point is removing the crown wheel from the stock diff, but looking at the suggestion above, a solution seems to present itself...

Or do you mean Quaife will fit a new crown wheel and not the one from the stock diff?

Thanks!

-Different

 

[sideways danny]

i'd be looking at buying a brand new crown wheel rather than complicating things by removing the old one, which is likely no longer perfect anyway

 

[griffonu]

May look into that at some point, indeed, but I'll give at least a try at removing the old one.

Thanks everyone for the answers!

-Bender

 

[GodSpeed]

They should really invent a method of sending a pint of beer over the net!

Thanks a lot, m8!

-Dreamer

Hehe I'd like that

 

[bozothenutter]

i'd be looking at buying a brand new crown wheel rather than complicating things by removing the old one, which is likely no longer perfect anyway

is the crownwheel available seperately?
what is the partnumber?

 

[Jonny1*2]

Do quaife not supply them? are you not tempted to reduce the ratios slightly?

 

[SamP]

Cor, way easier to fit a Quaiffe in a MG/R PG1 seemingly. Bolt on crown wheels ftw.

 

[slindborg]

I looked at getting a light set plate diff, but the stupid install process for the Clio put me right off... I can fit any diff to a Nova in about an hour and be back on the road lol The clio one looked to be far too much faff

 

[Tony Hunter]

That's also why they are so expensive,Quaife did ours for us.

 

[Nick r26r]

i need to get myself a quaife diff in the next few months , meant to make a huge difference to the car on track supposidly

 

[shiftspark]

That's also why they are so expensive,Quaife did ours for us.

Hi Tony what made you choose quaife over gripper ? also what c/w and pinion are you using ?

cheers

 

[Fred@BTM]

becuase he doesn't want to have to pull the box apart, he dislikes spanners

 

[Tony Hunter]

Fit and forget basically.
Standard.

After reading all the trouble the group buy had with Gripper,I was not going down that route.Plus we got a good deal.

 

[shiftspark]

I would have thought that the gripper with all its choice of ratio's was worth the extra hassle, but fit and forget is good lol.

I assume agency fitted for you

Also how quick was it to get the diff?

ta

 

[Tony Hunter]

A week and Agency fitted it and rebuilt the box in 5 hrs.

 

[Nick r26r]

good old agency , bet cliosport.net must keep them in business ,

 

[shiftspark]

That is good service from both. (I was told that the quaife diff was on a long lead time but this appears untrue )

Cheers

 

[Tony Hunter]

Depends on who you know

 

[Jonny1*2]

A week and Agency fitted it and rebuilt the box in 5 hrs.

what did they charge for fitting if you don't mind mate? 5hrs isn't bad at all.

 

[Tony Hunter]

That is good service from both. (I was told that the quaife diff was on a long lead time but this appears untrue )

Cheers

I think they are also made in batches,we had the last one one of the current lot.

 

[Tony Hunter]

what did they charge for fitting if you don't mind mate? 5hrs isn't bad at all.

We get a special price,so can't say I'm afraid.

 

[Jonny1*2]

No worries Tony