Rob5464
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Starting from the beginning, I was driving down the road and all of a sudden I was getting an aggressive knocking on the front end. It is hard to explain more than that as I had music on fairly loud at the time.
I immediately pulled into a car park to inspect. Nothing to be seen, I slowly maneuvered in the carpark. It was clunking and banging, immediately getting worse until transmission started trying to jam up. It felt like it was on the front axle. with a bit of revs I could force it to move and it would turn briefly before trying to jam again. I let it roll out of gear and the same thing happened.
Conveniently I was in a pub car park so I sat and had an expensive pint while I waited for the RAC. He suspected it was the front diff, so did I. When he winched me onto the wagon the wheels were jamming again even when out of gear. He had to use some sliders under the front wheels to get it up the ramp.
So I bought a diff and set about stripping the axle down. Only to find there was no damage at all to the diff. It turned as it should and no marks on the teeth. No metal shavings to be found either.
Oh dear, gear/transfer box I thought. I took the rear prop off and ran the engine through all gears and everything seemed in order.
I put the front prop on and drove it up and down the street with no problems to report. I then put the rear prop back on; took it for a run and it seems perfectly fine.
Although I am happy; I don't think this is the end of it. What is everyones thoughts?
I immediately pulled into a car park to inspect. Nothing to be seen, I slowly maneuvered in the carpark. It was clunking and banging, immediately getting worse until transmission started trying to jam up. It felt like it was on the front axle. with a bit of revs I could force it to move and it would turn briefly before trying to jam again. I let it roll out of gear and the same thing happened.
Conveniently I was in a pub car park so I sat and had an expensive pint while I waited for the RAC. He suspected it was the front diff, so did I. When he winched me onto the wagon the wheels were jamming again even when out of gear. He had to use some sliders under the front wheels to get it up the ramp.
So I bought a diff and set about stripping the axle down. Only to find there was no damage at all to the diff. It turned as it should and no marks on the teeth. No metal shavings to be found either.
Oh dear, gear/transfer box I thought. I took the rear prop off and ran the engine through all gears and everything seemed in order.
I put the front prop on and drove it up and down the street with no problems to report. I then put the rear prop back on; took it for a run and it seems perfectly fine.
Although I am happy; I don't think this is the end of it. What is everyones thoughts?
