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Banjo vs. Tubed rears

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What are the differences?
Which is better?
Why no Banjo's installed in GT's?
 
Tube (Salisbury) has better axle seals...Banjo is lighter & gears can be changed easier)...my preference is a Banjo rear end modified to fit tube axles on 'power' cars...Salisbury was the new thing when the GT's came out..& it might have something to do with the additional weight of the car and those Banjo axles.
 
I assume the the diagram in the Moss catalog to be correct and if so, a PPO may have installed a Banjo in my GT.

Banjo would be round and look like a opposing double necked "Banjo"? The Tubed rear has an irregular cover?

Nice to know if I need to do any work on it. I wonder if it had anything to do with the later trans that was installed in her. But why?
 
Play us a song.
 
Banjo has nuts around the face nearest the driveshaft so you can pull the entire 3rd member.
 
Oh, so we can all play a song. Something new I learned today.
 
The reason the factory never put Banjo axles in GTs is because the Tube (Salisbury) axle was supposedly quieter and seeing as how the GT is a hardtop, it caused the Banjo to be too loud in under the car.
 
I thought Banjo had triumphs and jags /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif
 
By June or July of '67 all MG's had Salisbury axles.
 
My GT is a very early '67. Any chance that it was from factory that way? Does not looked buggered with under the car as is someone put this in after but I'm sure a lot has happen to her over the past 39 years.
 
If your GT has a banjo rear end, it was put in after it left the factory - probably by a PO who was solving a problem with the Salisbury....for a while the crush washers at the front of the rear end where the driveshaft hooks up weren't available so people just switched rear ends if the thrust washer went bad.

Definitely not original.
 
Gotcha. Thanks.
 
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