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"Pumpkin"/as in differential[ALL/1998] posted by Jim Ells on
Monday, 27 October 1997, at 12:38 p.m.
Sometimes, some people refer to the center section of the differential as the "pumpkin." Don't know why this is so, but heard this way back in 1956 from both, Ted Halibrand and Chick Webb while Meyer-Drake Engineering.
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Regards/Jim Ells
Re: "Pumpkin"/as in differential[ALL/1998] posted by abe crombie on
Monday, 27 October 1997, at 12:47 p.m.
Most older rear axles had what is known as a removeable differential carrier. When you removed this diff. unit it looked like a pumpkin. Now most all automotive and light truck axles are integral carrier types, i.e. the differential is carried by bearings that ride directly in the housing. Volvo solid axles are this type. Now days a lot of people refer to the differential unit used on independent rear suspension cars as a pumpkin, again because if you use your imagination it resembles a (deformed) pumpkin.