front diff?

gismo · Post by **gismo** » Sat May 02, 2009 1:19 pm

Hi Team

go a small question for you nissan fans.
My mate just got a 1990 safari. the front hubs have got auto and lock on them. they have the makings the same as a free wheeling hub.
this of course makes me just a little confussed (not hard for me).

To me it looks like you have the option of auto or locking. but we just want to make sure if this is the case.
any help would be wonderful

Cheers
Chris

darinz · Post by **darinz** » Sat May 02, 2009 1:54 pm

In lock they are locked in and in auto they are auto locking (meaning auto unlocking). It is possible to convert them to lock / unlock but you need to pull them apart and modify a couple of things but relatively easy to do.

gismo · Post by **gismo** » Sat May 02, 2009 2:21 pm

cheers for that.
as I thought, have not come across this type before wanted to make sure.

are these hubs any good. would seem to be the best of both worlds.

darinz · Post by **darinz** » Sat May 02, 2009 3:10 pm

They are what I use on my winch truck (over 500hp) and also my wifes truck but I've converted them all to manual. They are plenty strong and only the factory manual are stronger. I don't like auto hubs at all as they hav a habit of not working when you want.

monstr · Post by **monstr** » Sat May 02, 2009 3:12 pm

These are factory hubs and ive found them quite a bit stronger than after market ones ,if you use them in auto setting make sure when you take it out of 4wd that you reverse up a couple of mtrs other wise some times they dont dissingage and will make horrible noises

curly12 · Post by **curly12** » Sun May 03, 2009 12:41 pm

And if you fix an auto locker in the front make sure you lock them in when in 4wd, because otherwise they will shit themselves in no time at all

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Mon May 04, 2009 9:53 pm

Where would one find this manual modification diy

darinz · Post by **darinz** » Tue May 05, 2009 5:12 pm

For a small fee it can be done for you!

There was a very good post with photo's on OL descibing it. I've gone a step further as I found they rattled a bit so what I do stops that as well. Search OL for it and it will tell all.

coxsy · Post by **coxsy** » Tue May 05, 2009 5:16 pm

had a mate call me and saying he brought a front diff with manuel hubs on it "oh good avm or superwinch ",'' no nissan should i use them or not" man did that give me a moral question , tell to use them or say they are no good but i can use them ,but i was a good boy told him they were the best to have

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Wed May 06, 2009 11:30 pm

darinz wrote:For a small fee it can be done for you!

There was a very good post with photo's on OL descibing it. I've gone a step further as I found they rattled a bit so what I do stops that as well. Search OL for it and it will tell all.

not needed... bought these :mrgreen:

Hoping they are the good factory manual ones

darinz · Post by **darinz** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:41 am

They aren't!! Nothing is!

flyingbrick · Post by **flyingbrick** » Thu May 07, 2009 5:17 pm

I'm confused. haha.

Happens easily.

darinz · Post by **darinz** » Thu May 07, 2009 7:40 pm

Nah I should have looked at the photo closer! My bad!

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