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just brought a new cruiser this will be number 4,flyn to dunners tomo to pick it up 85 swb,has 33s,snorkel n the mighty 13bt.cant wait to get back out n do some tracks.gotta few plans for it .Rich

shot some phesents shot some ducks , terrano'ed through some rivers , found broken bits on terrano

coxsy wrote:the garage stated they fill the diffs to the drain bung level not on litres, pointed this out that doing that over fills the diffs
Mechanic's

huh?! and what would happen if the diffs were filled up to the filler bung (overfilled)?!!


I went and picked up an escudo Bush truck on the weekend, gota get it ready for the bush now

nzhunter wrote:

coxsy wrote:the garage stated they fill the diffs to the drain bung level not on litres, pointed this out that doing that over fills the diffs
Mechanic's

huh?! and what would happen if the diffs were over filled??!!


I went and picked up an escudo Bush truck on the weekend, gota get it ready for the bush now

I don't see an issue, I've always filled diffs to the hole, not on litres as have most others i've talked to. I have had others find out the hard way that filling them past the bung (over filled) causes them to pressurise and hussle oil out everywhere but to the bung has always been fine...

cv's running oil, all the grease packed in there gone, both sides

Fill the diffs to until it runs out the filler hole.

coxsy wrote:cv's running oil, all the grease packed in there gone, both sides

That more a sign the inner seals are gone and/or your breather is blocked. mine was under filled and i had same issue you had with having oil in cvs

try again, if filled to the hole the axles tubes are full of oil
but will check the breather

niblik wrote:

drive it ... wrote:Did worsleys.. took out the passenger side step at the first rock garden trying to get up the back of the rock over on the right side. Good effort whoever got up there.

that'll be turoa, hosehustler, petefj40 and niblik that took similar lines over that. cant remember if kbjj bothered?



anyhoo, what do ya drive? pics?

Ahh - trailer trucks - that must be some sort of cheating. I'm in a "shiny" (ish) LWB prado. Ex. Kaiapoi truck.
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drive it ... wrote:Ahh - trailer trucks - that must be some sort of cheating. I'm in a "shiny" (ish) LWB prado. Ex. Kaiapoi truck.

Fixed it for ya, to many [img] thingys.....

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Cheers - bit new to both photobucket and this posting game

coxsy wrote:try again, if filled to the hole the axles tubes are full of oil
but will check the breather

Yep thats right. If you have a look in a manual it says it will take 5.2 litres of oil which when i did mine it came to the filler bung. seems weird i know.

coxsy wrote:try again, if filled to the hole the axles tubes are full of oil
but will check the breather

Its not the thread to post tech in, but hell, why not.

The Safari front diff is a high pinion 9" diff.

As a result the pinion is up "high".

This means the oil level in the front diff needs to be high enough to lubricate the pinion bearing, which sits up at roughly the same height as the axle shafts.

Buy under filling the front diff (i.e not filling up to the correct level, which is specified by the level plug), you pinion bearing will run dry and fail prematurely.

As the oil level in the diff has to be high to lubricate the pinion bearing properly, it becomes far more noticeable when the front inner axle seals have worn.

Worn axle seals result in what you are experiencing, the diff oil migrates out into the swivel housing and dilutes the greese.

The ONLY fix is to replace your inner axle seals and make sure you get them in straight and undamaged.

Running your diff with less oil in it will only damage your pinion bearing.

I did some skids in The50 at the weekend. It was good

DieselBoy wrote:I did some skids in The50 at the weekend. It was good

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Installed my new rims & tyres on Disco - Thanks Coop for bringin' em down.

Booked in for winch bar make & weld next weekend.

A bit slow on the uptake but heres a couple of videos from last weekend the day after I got back from Mexico

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Lovin the V8 roar at the end