Mercedes diffs

As you know, this very hot 351 Mk.7 is up here in Kapunda getting a job done on its diff. It's a fairly strange diff, being an early Mercedes, presumably from a Pullman model and seems to be independant on one side and live on the other. In addition to that, the diff has been locked for motorsport. Because of its inflexibility, it has broken an alloy central mounting and this was the cause of its clunk, clunk, clunk that originally caused the last person to drive it to think the gearbox was buggered. Cars with locked diffs, as well as being hard to drive normally, can also be unpredictable. It was that diff that spat previous owner, Steve Rowley, off the road at Williamstown causing the need for a replacement wishbone and some body repairs to the RHF corner after tangling with a tree. In the interests of a happier life while cruising in the country, the locked diff is coming out being replaced by the spare one which seems to be in pretty good condition. This new diff has a ratio of 2.9:1. One of its many WA former owners, Errol Du Boulay, says that with the 2.9 diff the car is good for 300 clicks. The car is scary enough at 200!