The Diff club...

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

G'day Brett

Great videos ... what a great way to spend an Easter break.

Those steps, the ones that leapt out and bit Matthew in the diff .... are they the ones about the middle of Part 5 ???

Cheers
Chippy

[BATriton Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close BATriton]

G'day Brett

Great videos ... what a great way to spend an Easter break.

Those steps, the ones that leapt out and bit Matthew in the diff .... are they the ones about the middle of Part 5 ???

Cheers
Chippy

No. The end of video 2 shows Matthew skillfully removing the air from his front tyre. When the tyre was changed, he had another go at the hill and at the exact same spot saw the death of the diff.

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

Oh yeah ... much more obvious with the sound on ops:

Thanks Brett ..... and YEP .... that was all skill :wink:

Cheers
Chippy

[wengnuts Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close wengnuts]

Thanks for the vids and pics mate.

[Blokeman Member Find all posts View Profile Close Blokeman]

Woohoo, I'm a member!
Going hard up a sandy hill and the rear diff goes, bummer. Drove it out on the front diff, with a disconcerting clunk/skid/clunk/skid coming from the back...

I'll do some reading and see what the latest cost is for diff or diff&locker. I've got an ARB 100k's away

[McBAIN Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close McBAIN]

Woohoo, I'm a member!
Going hard up a sandy hill and the rear diff goes, bummer. Drove it out on the front diff, with a disconcerting clunk/skid/clunk/skid coming from the back...

I'll do some reading and see what the latest cost is for diff or diff&locker. I've got an ARB 100k's away

Bugger!

this clubs getting pretty big!

[Blokeman Member Find all posts View Profile Close Blokeman]

Oh for the record this is where it blew, the crest of a big hill near Kilcarnup.
I turned around at the top and took this...

[McBAIN Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close McBAIN]

were you giving it a bit when trying to climb? usual story of wheel in the air coming back down with a bang?

or something else?

[MattWhite Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close MattWhite]

Should we put a thread in general discussion for a bulk buy of crown wheels and pinions? Not a piss take, more of a disgusted comment. It's becoming a bit regular!

Matt

[Blokeman Member Find all posts View Profile Close Blokeman]

were you giving it a bit when trying to climb? usual story of wheel in the air coming back down with a bang?
or something else?

Yes I was going hard, low 2nd and foot to the floor. I had to bash through the sand a bit, the holes were 2 feet deep.
I imagine a wheel bit hard and bang.

[Russ WA Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Russ WA]

Blokeman welcome to the members lounge,
To you right is a empty wallet and you left a angry wife. :lol:

I hope all goes well with the new one, Go the locker 8)
Russ

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Thanks Russ, nice to feel welcome 8)

[Signature035 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Signature035]

Great Divide Tours Newsletter this month records another victim;

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[Blokeman Member Find all posts View Profile Close Blokeman]

Something to think about that.
All the way out after mine blew I was hoping it wouldn't jam up, then I'd be pulling the centre out in deep sand, yecchh...

On a lighter note I did this in an EH Holden years ago, 17 years old and blew a diff, all jammed up.
We couldn't push it or bounce it off a busy road, what to do?
I know, rev the hell out of it, drop the clutch and blow the diff completely, at least it will move.
Did this and BANG! Blew the gearbox to bits
:lol: :lol: :lol:

[LiveFreeAndRoam Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close LiveFreeAndRoam]

I'm thinking a step-by-step pictorial guide and list of necessary tools of how to do a bush-service on the diff to remove the ring gear could be a great help. It's a sad realisation, but I think I would keep such a guide in my glovebox, just in case...

LFaR.