Water in LSD

[minefield]

Hi All,

I got stuck in a river, About a metre of water for about a half of an hour before I got my self out,

I drained both diff's as both had water in them , The rear LSD used to work realy good, It's been a week of driving about and still the LSD is not working, I checked the oil slighty milky so I put new LSD oil in again today ,, How long should I wait before it starts working again.

When I bought the Nissan the LSD did not work and I had to put engine oil cleaner in the diff, Started working great after about 500k's, I was wonding if I should the same ?????

[Bubba]

Ignore the problem and hope it goes away by it's self, man, thats a page straight out of MY repair book.

I think I should copyright that piece of advice before it catchs on.......... It's amazing it often it works though and it's amazing how expensive it gets when it dosen't

[vvega]

you have to be carefull with clutch packs and water... they use a water based glue to hold the friction material onto the backing plates
used to have major issues with the submarine cars i used to fix with the tran's full of water
were fine as long as they were properly drained and new oil put in them ...


did you flush it out ??

[gary_in_nz]

Ignore the problem and hope it goes away by it's self, man, thats a page straight out of MY repair book.

I think I should copyright that piece of advice before it catchs on.......... It's amazing it often it works though and it's amazing how expensive it gets when it dosen't

bahahaha sounded like me last friday night at work, had this real tight bearing on a huge auger from the boiler trying to remove it. applied a load of pressure with some bearing pullers loads of crc, then my boss comes along and says lets all go have a beer and hope it comes off by itself over the weekend.

as for the lsd, sounds like the clutches maybe had it. although maybe rinse it thoroughly and drive it for a bit, see what happens

[minefield]

No , I did not rince it out just drained it filled with new oil run it for a week drained it again and refilled it , Hoping it will come right !!

[vvega]

fill it with some biofuel to rinse ... is hydroscopic