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Diff went POP!!!!

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disco-v8:
driving back home after a meal on sunday nite, i heard a fudding and i could feel it all through the truck.... so i pulled up amiddiatly to see if i could see anything........

well i couldnt see anything so i drove it with the door open to see if i could hear where it was coming from, but it had stopped... so i carryed on home, asoon as i went around a corner it happened again, OH CRAP!!!!

all the way home it would happen, then it would stop just like that... i knew that this wasnt just going to be a simple wheel bearing going, or something like that....


the next morning i jacked up the rear of the truck and moved the wheels to see how much play was in them before it would move the prop shaft... oh my god i cud turn the wheel about 1/8th of a turn before the prop would move..... now i knew the diff had gone!!!!


i took the diff off and look at what i found (picture) the planet gear shaft had snapped... not in one place but two!!!!! mad a nice mess of the gear too, im so glad i only had to drive it a small jerny home... the EP90 looked a mattlic colour cuz of the metal flowting around in it.....

a couple of days before hand i was thinking of getting a diff locker and this was the excuse to get my credit card out and get one :lol:

so now im a proud owner of a detroit locker in the rear  :D


heres some picy's

disco-v8:
my new detroit locker

Skibum346:
:mrgreen:  :-&

Can't wait for mine to go... wait... can't afford a detroit... guess it'll just have to be my spare!

 :lol: :-&

mud-club-matty:
wonder were danny is lol

extreme90:
hehe danny is here  :lol:
ahhh so thats why you been so quiet then eh  :lol:  :lol:   :wink:
i hope u set the pinion and backlash right tho if you did it yourself :shock:  
if you did  :shock:
mind you after the sledge hammer and rear a frame incident  :lol:  nothings impossable with you  :lol:  :lol:
here give me a ring in the week orrr speak to me on msn some time as ur going offroading with me next weekend  :lol:   :wink:  a nice woodland to test out that detroit  :lol:
so nice of you to volunteer  :twisted:
dan  :lol:

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