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No wonder you had no time to come over for lunch this week. Looks like you have been a busy boy!!!

half fitted snorkel today, finish tomorrow, as well as pull main crank pulley off replace and do belts while i`m there. prolly flush the radiator too.

Sadam_Husain wrote:Pulled out the broken rear diff from rallywoods a couple of weeks ago, got another C&P to fit to it, found a few bruises around one of the cross pins but other than that it looks ok

Noticed the rear spring perches had collapsed and the axle housing has been rolling around inside the U-Bolts so getting them rebuilt while the diffs out

that will be why the pinion broke

brought this bit of rust, runs sweet 84 ex doc truck

well i put a 91 terrano front on my 87 nissan datsun d/cab looks good and newer

well as per post repaired thin tank guard and fitted new hayman reese towbar

[quote="Sadam_Husain"], found a few bruises around one of the cross pins but other than that it looks ok

That is one area to watch on an ARB. The short pins on mine are flogged out and loose.

I put spacing shims in mine to take out the slack by the block in the middle of spider gears

Cheers Richard

did you break a 9" diff sadamm ?

vvega wrote:did you break a 9" diff sadamm ?

Starting to have doubts Wayne when you thought it is your answer. I have seen it before.

Cheers Richard

it only happens when there is axle wrap and by the looks of the spring perches, that looks like what caused it

yeah TBH i didnt have my rear tramp bar on and the amount of axle tramp that i had probably didnt help as well as the abuse that i gave it the day before
my reasoning for the upgrade is that i would like to 1 run air lockers and bigger /more agressive tires at some stage
in my own mind there is not much point is spending a few g on lockers for diffs that i will probably have to change eventually anyways
dunno i know you dont like the idea of changing the hilux axels out .. and to be honest i don't either ...
but its either something stronger or i detune my engine and don't run larger tyres catch 22 i guess

on i side note

today i learnt that
electric 9" lockers need a long spline axle on the short side
that you cannot buy one of these off the shelf
and that a man down in welly will make one for 150 bucks inc (i couldnt make one for that inc heat treatment) and like jafa you need a hub plate to make it all work

also
that a rear diff bearing set is $490 retail(but who pays retail)
that the electric locker requires a hard shim set .. hasn't got the adjustable side plates
and that its bloody heavy to drop on your foot

i also learnt that the motors are fixable
and that actually fitting the axle to the truck takes 2 hours
and is impossible to do when your diff hoops are in auckland because you forgot to take them out of your flatmates car

man what a weekend

soooooooooooooooooooo hands up if you can identify this dodgy looking person ...

Been looking for a safari for manuel conversion and some spare parts last 2+ months.quite hard to find I can tell you,at a good price that is.I got this one in the end.


It has one of these on the front



one of these also,manuel trans



come with twins,which are both stuffed I'm told,but lots of spares(inj pump,injectors,etc)



best why to remove trans,just lift front up and slide sideways


By the time I draged it home owes me $1600 which is not to bad,manuel trans cost close to a grand by them self

Shane

The good news is my cruiser is back on four wheel after months on two (rear hub repairs). So I had to take it for a drive

The bad news is I was getting too excited to soon... hit a brick wall... hadn't bleed the brakes...

The good news is I was going about 2 kph and the brick wall is only about 4 mtrs from where I started from.

The bad news is it took a wee bit of paint off the wall.

The good news is the cruiser suffered nothing, just gained a bit of wall paint on the front bar

But the real bad news is I decided to see if any water had settled to the bottom of the diff while it was sitting and these fell out of the drain bung...


Looks like springs out of the lockrite! That will explain why it wasn't functioning properly to the end of the last outing. And may be why the locker seemed to jamb on which may be the reason why the axle studs shore off. But it doesn't explain why the locker looked faultless last time it played up and we pulled it to bits, which was only a short time ago...

Looks like the locker will be coming out.. again.

vvega wrote:did you break a 9" diff sadamm ?

Yep

Turoa wrote:it only happens when there is axle wrap and by the looks of the spring perches, that looks like what caused it

Yep

Bulletproof wrote:That is one area to watch on an ARB. The short pins on mine are flogged out and loose.

I put spacing shims in mine to take out the slack by the block in the middle of spider gears

Its the long pin that goes right through

im bout to put a 9" in mine mate hence my concern
arh well .. no going back now i have about 3 diffs 4 axels and a pile of bits

vvega wrote:im bout to put a 9" in mine mate hence my concern
arh well .. no going back now i have about 3 diffs 4 axels and a pile of bits

9 will be heaps stronger than an 8, thats the first 9" diff I've popped in 20 years and if you look at the pics of my spring perches you'll see how much my diff housing and pinion rotated before it sheared

Sadam_Husain wrote:

vvega wrote:im bout to put a 9" in mine mate hence my concern
arh well .. no going back now i have about 3 diffs 4 axels and a pile of bits

9 will be heaps stronger than an 8, thats the first 9" diff I've popped in 20 years and if you look at the pics of my spring perches you'll see how much my diff housing and pinion rotated before it sheared

and its not like it was a hard hill or anything

you probably been up there shiteloads in the past

gunna fit a tramp bar/ladder ?
im gunna do a nice one on the new 9" uncle jaffa has given me some idea for the latest styling

when the fronts out .. going to do something very similar to that as well

sick of everything felling like its gunna fall out when you give a foot full
put 4.88 diffs in it as well

skid wrote:and its not like it was a hard hill or anything

you probably been up there shiteloads in the past

2.5 times

Shot up Thompsons this arvo, got home at 830....

Two things to note.....

The right hand track heading to the summit NEEDS to be left the F##K alone.... or someone is going to get seriously hurt, or worse. It used to be left by many for the down track only. Seeing as how the left and centre tracks are getting "too hard" for some, the left track is copping a lot of use, and hence about half way up is breaking through adjacent to a gully and a drop to nowhere.
Three vehicles in the last two weeks have now been recovered from this very point trying to ascend, and if a decent is attempted, esp in the wet, tyres will drag to the left and potentially over the edge.
There isnt much stopping it from breaking away now. This is not a "maybe".... Shit WILL happen here... and it will not be "Good Shit"

Secondly..... I am utterly sick to death of punks in daddys 4x4 drinking piss and leaving their F#####G cans and bottles etc laying all over the place. Also, tonight we had some stoopid twat about 6 inches away from death cause it was cool to drift down the muddy hill 1/2 way up thommos, it got away and he ended up 1/4 over the edge.
Two trucks trying to winch him back onto the track, WITH two more trucks as anchors couldnt budge him. We got him out eventually, with his drunk/stoned mates looking on. At least they saved us the ignominy of trying to offer advise.

I think one of the occupant of the 4 trucks in that crew said "thanks".

did they have recovery gear? Did they have tow hooks? Did they have half a brain between them?

I'm pissed off.

Sadam_Husain wrote:
Its the long pin that goes right through

I have broken 2 long shafts in my ARBs so with the damage on the carrier it would be a good idea to have a look.

The long pin is doweled at both ends so can't drop out

Cheers Richard

vvega wrote:on i side note

today i learnt that
electric 9" lockers need a long spline axle on the short side
that you cannot buy one of these off the shelf
and that a man down in welly will make one for 150 bucks inc (i couldnt make one for that inc heat treatment) and like jafa you need a hub plate to make it all work

also
that a rear diff bearing set is $490 retail(but who pays retail)
that the electric locker requires a hard shim set .. hasn't got the adjustable side plates
and that its bloody heavy to drop on your foot

i also learnt that the motors are fixable
and that actually fitting the axle to the truck takes 2 hours
and is impossible to do when your diff hoops are in auckland because you forgot to take them out of your flatmates car

man what a weekend

i have a spare long splined short side axle if you need it wega.brian howat made it for me but dont need it any more as locker going in front

for a 70 series ?

keen

Guy up here sells manual conversions for $600 incl everything needed.

lol your going Manuel and im going auto ... what's with that

What the ####. I'm not. I made that post and it came up in totally the wrong place LOL

lol ya diddle
wazz you doing today ?
im rebuilding locker motors