Diff went POP!!!!

[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:  
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:    a nice woodland to test out that detroit  :lol:
so nice of you to volunteer  :twisted:
dan  :lol:

[extreme90]

this will get his attention  :lol:  :twisted:
http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=35255
dan  :twisted:

[disco-v8]

set the hieght and backlash??????

what the hell are these???? i just put the thing in and bolted the two caps up, i also got rid of those horrible looking round thingd at the end cuz they didnt look good......

come on danny, do u think id spend a few hundred pounds and just chuck it in????

come on i did get that ball joint out with a sledge hammer PMSL  :lol: so i know what im doing!!!!!


anyway thanks for the invite at the weekend, but r u getting jellous of my truck or something and thats y u r trying to get me to break it again??? lol
bloody hell danny ive only just got the thing fitted and im just waiting for the sealant to dry before i fit her full of EP90, so i havent even tryed it yet..........

dunna worry tho if the offers there ill be there  :D


oh and also thanks for volotering me for that new rock course with you and jimmy..... looks like im going to have to get a set of new tyres aswell on those rocks, dont forget i aint got any underbody protection yet!!!!!

BUT ill still be there aswell lol  :lol:
better make sure my names down for it... after all u can tow me home  

[extreme90]

oi ya dont need sealant, remember when i bust me shaft, i coudnt be arsed to put some rtv onto the diff to seal it i thought id use the mud instead  :lol:
it neaver leaked aswel  :shock:   :lol:
bearings went instead  :lol:
looking forward to breaking, a mean seeing your truck an u next weekend  :lol:
dan

[disco-v8]

oh my god dan, i can see y u usualy break your truck when i see u.... if your going to o something, do it properly man lol!!!!!!!!!

yeah well looking forward to seein u again and will make a chage to go somewhere else..... and remeber, its not ur 90 so dought it will break lol

see ya soon

[extreme90]

aaaa, am in a mad panic now  :shock: got change a bearing in tranny box and fit the spare engine as the old one as e hum......cracked  :roll:
dan  :lol:   :P