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Benz

Joined: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:30 pm
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Location: Cervantes WA

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:20 am

have broken a cv and in a attempt to get the jimny back on the road as it is my daily have come up with the plan of dropping the front diff oil and taking both the axle and broken cv out.

this will only be for a week or two and will only be driven in 2wd...

cant see anything wrong with doing this but if anyone can...
please don't let me learn the hard way

thanx guys

smiffkid

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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:25 am

take your front drive shaft out, and it will be fine,

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royce

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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:26 am

pull the front driveshaft out as well, be a lot less chance of the diff turning then

Benz

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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:35 am

good idea =]

dm90

Joined: Sun Nov 29, 2009 10:30 pm
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Location: Perth

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:43 am

sorry for a thread hi jack, but i have wondered, when out wheeling, if you put a hole in your rear diff, can you put it in 4H and disconnect the rear drive shaft so it runs as a front wheel drive?????

inbits

Joined: Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:30 am
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Location: qld

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:45 am

dm90 wrote:

no because your rear diff still spins

alien

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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:46 am

you can on a sierra, i'd assume jimnys are the same but from memory vitaras (maybe just GV?) will spill all their oil if you disconnect the shaft.

the diff would still turn though so it wouldnt work if you had destroyed an axle etc.

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royce

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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:47 am

diff still turns

you would be best off trying to patch the hole with what you can and keeping oil in there

Benz

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Location: Cervantes WA

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:20 am

i know on other 4wd's you can easily pull the whole rear axle's out of the difs pretty easily.

steak_knife

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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:23 am

Benz2369 wrote:

i know on other 4wd's you can easily pull the whole rear axle's out of the difs pretty easily.

Floating axle's yes....

take you front drive shaft out & you'll be fine..

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MacDaddy

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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:51 am

Not sure it will work for newer model zooks, but my bro broke both rear axles being an idiot in his old 3cyl Zook, in the middle of nowhere many years ago, he was stuck, but got out by putting it in 4wd high, drove over 150kms like that to get it fixed, didnt do any damage to the front axles...

Benz

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Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:48 am

all sorted =]

will find out how much a new cv will cost me on monday.....

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