The drivers side rear brake backing plate on my ae71 is bent and the drum scored and i'm having trouble finding one to replace it. I have a t18 that i will be parting out soon, can i use the entire rear axle / diff / brakes from that? if so is it a straight swap?.. if not what other options do i have?.

 

Pic of the damage.

 

Any advice would be much appreciated, cheers!

How did that happen ? i say this because i had a fractured axle housing which caused the brakes to come on on the side that was bent and a constant oil leak no matter what i did.

When the brakes came on it was so violent that the backing plate bent and required a new plate which bent again due to the housing problem.

I needed a whole new housing and axles in the end.

 

Unsure of the T18 straight bolt up.

you can use the rear of the t18

 

i believe you will need to use the rear half of your t18 tailshaft mated to the front half of your current tailshaft

 

the t18 diff is also much stronger and has LSD options :fuzz:

 

tho your t18 diff may not have swaybar mounts?

 

someone else will know more

Its almost a straight bolt in, you can't use the AE71 "front half" because it doesn't have a front half as such, it doesn't unbolt like a T18 one. What you'll need instead is an AE86 front half tail shaft, with that everything will bolt straight in.

ah that makes sense

 

i didnt think either coulud be unbolted n uni joints had to be pressed out n stuff, but yeah what he sed^

Budowski - I just got the car so i'm assuming that the previous owner got a crowbar in there to get the drum off, when we inspected the brakes they were set up completely wrong with handbrake cable doubled back on itself...

 

Thanks for the advice guys, got some pics of the 1981 t18 diff here:

 

 

 

 

I think it has 10 bolts on the front.

Yes its a T series Diff, just like the mighty AE86 and most old rwd corona and celica models.

 

You also have a swaybar, the first two years made did not.

Nice!, now to find an ae86 tailshaft :fuzz: