I spent a few hours installing new brake shoes and reassembling the locking differential. I also cleaned and coated the cross member and tested the differential. Afterward, I went out for a test drive, picking up concrete bits from the park to fill a hole.
I had noticed that the something was worn in the drive as there was always a clunck when pulling off. Not the worst I’ve experienced in the Land Rover, but not great either. So I picked up two new drive flanges for the rear axle. And a short video to round it off:
I finally got around to trying to get the diff back into one piece ready to go back in, but I fiddled with it for an hour last night and am still not happy with the bearing set up and the back lash.
I set about re-building the locker last night. I managed to get the broken part from ARB direct, on next day delivery, so that turned up yesterday. The last night I put it mostly together. Nearly there now, I will finish assembling it, then plug it into the air on the Land Rover and test to make sure that it operate properly before installing it in the axle. While I am here I shall replace the drive flanges and also the rear brake pads.
I chose to pop the diff out again, since the leak was not good and I remmeber that my logic wasn’t sound when I was working out whether I needed to put a gasket on. The logic I used was to check that the new diff didn’t have one, or something like that. Either way, the one I’d removed still had the gasket on it.. so off it came and no gasket went back on. I am not in two minds as to whether or not to re-fit the open diff then have to go through this yet again or wait for the locker part to arrive and then just re-assmeble it all once. The photop below is showing the brand NEW gasket… I was pretty surprised by the colour of the oil, that was only in there for a week and I only did about 5 miles. So I […]
Finally I’ve got the diff fully apart and have found a broken piece, classically it’s the only plastic part. Also I cleaned a whole pile of small fragments of stuff out of the diff, they can’t have been helping the matter. I’ve now contacted a local firm who might be able to supply me with the new bit.
I have carried on trying to get into the diff, so far I have failed to undo what I think are just M5 bolts. They’re tight and also have a funny 12 sided head. I don’t have a socket to fit them, which doesn’t help. I have lined up a friend and a local garage to help me undo these 6 tiny bolts, then I shall throw them away and replace them with something that had a head that I can undo myself.
I have started to take apart the ARB Locking diff now. I’ve just removed the air pressurisation part and the dropped the diff itself out from the bearing carriers. I also got a nice picture looking in from outside at dusk. I got the track rods re-fitted the other evening also, so short of some oil in the diff, the Land Rover is ready to go again.
Ed and I went and explored around Portland a little last night, checked out the Verne Citadel, the Verne High Angle Battery and also the East Weare Rifle Range. It was a good trip, though we didn’t go anywhere that was particularly off the beaten track, still really cool to see.
I’ve set about fixing the issues I caused last week. Here are a few pictures and videos of the progress. First it was off with thw track rods, as some of the ends had badly split rubbers and though there was little play, I feel that it’s a good idea to just replace the ends while I am here. So they’re on order now. Next the half shafts came out. Then I popped the prop off and the diff out, it’s still locked up, I dragged out my old diff and checked the back lash, adjusted it a touch. So now it’s a case of waiting for the order of new bits to turn up. The diff can go back in, half shafts back in. then when the track rod ends turn up I can put that all back toegether and it should be road worthy once more. Then I […]
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