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How do you un-wind a diff??

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stratie:
It's fixed..........at long last  :lol:

After trying every thing (well all most every thing) i took the truck over to my mates farm, and ragged it around a wet field in two wheel drive. Hey presto, it worked  :D

Chris Putt:
Stuck in 4wd then?

stratie:

--- Quote from: Chris Putt on October 21, 2008, 21:16:58 ---Stuck in 4wd then?

--- End quote ---
No mate, it would seem that the front diff was wound up.
I got it over to my mates farm, and his dad who has been around land rovers for many years said....

You can try it in reverse (on wet grass) but you still, but if you go to far you still run the risk of winding the diff back up.

Then he asked if i had jacked up four corners at the same time, then spin the wheels. I told him i had only done one at a time.

He said to drive it around (the wet grassy field) turning from left to right and get the wheels spinning.

So i did. I guess i must of span around said field for about 10 minutes. Hard left,hard right hard left hard rifgt ect ect.

When i got back to the yard, he told me to try the low range (red lever) and hey presto, it worked. No more jerk jerk jerk.
The he said to try 4 wheel drive (push yellow  lever down) spot on  :D

The old boy has now got the truck back, and i have now got my LWT back.....Happy days!

He asked me how much he owed me? I said....you owe me nothing mate  ;)

Then we sat down to a nice hot brew, he then said.....
Im 72 years old (he looks no older than 50, but he moves around very slow) my driving days are all most over. If and when i cant drive no more, would you be happy to take on my land rover?

I was gob smacked.

topless matt:
From what i can gather from this thread, i would say that one diff is a different ration than the other, this would give all the problems you say.
high 4x4 would be worse as the wheels would be turning faster!  :twisted:

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