Larry365
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Afternoon folks
Now that the immediate jobs are out of the way, its time too look at the bigger things. There is a serious amount of play in the forward drive. Rear axle seems fine but the front axle is getting pretty bad. I haven't actually disconnected the prop at either end yet, so obviously the play is in both the diff and the trans. We're talking about 20-25 degrees of play when turning by hand with vehicle in gear, clunking at both ends.
Obviously the next job to do is to d/c the shaft at each end separately to get an idea of where is worse but I was just wondering what sort of job it is to resolve this kind of thing. I'm not too worried about the diff as I don't think this would be toooo hard for me to refurbish but what about the transfer end? I don't mind a little bit of play but there is too much. Even on the smoothest of take-offs, the disco will gently "kangaroo" it way up to 30mph.
Cheers
Now that the immediate jobs are out of the way, its time too look at the bigger things. There is a serious amount of play in the forward drive. Rear axle seems fine but the front axle is getting pretty bad. I haven't actually disconnected the prop at either end yet, so obviously the play is in both the diff and the trans. We're talking about 20-25 degrees of play when turning by hand with vehicle in gear, clunking at both ends.
Obviously the next job to do is to d/c the shaft at each end separately to get an idea of where is worse but I was just wondering what sort of job it is to resolve this kind of thing. I'm not too worried about the diff as I don't think this would be toooo hard for me to refurbish but what about the transfer end? I don't mind a little bit of play but there is too much. Even on the smoothest of take-offs, the disco will gently "kangaroo" it way up to 30mph.
Cheers
