First breakdown.

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jamesmartin said:
shortest one is usually the culprit for obvious reasons
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Yes. Must be a tad more brittle being shorter.
What’s the fillet plug for on top of the axle casing? As I understood it, the bottom one is obviously for draining, the middle one is for fill level but I found another up on top :confused:
 
Bobsticle said:
Yes. Must be a tad more brittle being shorter.
What’s the fillet plug for on top of the axle casing? As I understood it, the bottom one is obviously for draining, the middle one is for fill level but I found another up on top :confused:
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never seen one on top of the axle cases, in diff housing yes for filling and level
 
jamesmartin said:
front or back
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The back one. I wuz hardly going to take off the front one to extract a rear halfshaft. :)

just seems daft to have a filler plug on top of the diff cover that you can’t get to. I’ve always topped up through the oil level plug.

oh ang on. It’s a series. Daft is mandatory. :)
 
Bobsticle said:
The back one. I wuz hardly going to take off the front one to extract a rear halfshaft. :)

just seems daft to have a filler plug on top of the diff cover that you can’t get to. I’ve always topped up through the oil level plug.

oh ang on. It’s a series. Daft is mandatory. :)
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diff filler used to be through the diff housing drain through bottom of axle case, late axle cases had a level /filler plug fitted in the axle pan and so diff housing no longer had a filler plug,youve a late axle case early diff
 
jamesmartin said:
diff filler used to be through the diff housing drain through bottom of axle case, late axle cases had a level /filler plug fitted in the axle pan and so diff housing no longer had a filler plug,youve a late axle case early diff
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I wondered why I had to beat it back on with a sledge hammer :p
 
The next job will probably be the clutch :(

I’m really not looking forward to this one. Been putting it off for far too long and it could really do with a fresh plate.
Just seems such a huge job just to change the bleedin thing.
 
Bobsticle said:
The next job will probably be the clutch :(

I’m really not looking forward to this one. Been putting it off for far too long and it could really do with a fresh plate.
Just seems such a huge job just to change the bleedin thing.
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Glad you got up and running again quickly.

I don't envy you doing the clutch, I dread it needing doing, as you say - huge job, tiny part.
 
Not sure if I could reuse this now it’s settled a bit. At least half looks good. :eek:

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I’ve had two failures in the past 5 years. First was at the end of our track so it was an easy recovery. Two years ago it happened 14 miles away. I’d no option other than to drive home in four wheel drive (slowly).

Despite that the rear offside drive bearing and assembly was trashed, metal on metal. I had to replace the whole bearing and housing plus the drive shaft and oil seals etc. But interestingly as posted I had a zombie drive shaft on that side. It broke as posted at the diff end which was 10 splines but at the wheel end it was 24 splines. Sheite part supply these but I don’t understand why there’s this odd combination. Anyone?
 
John S said:
I’ve had two failures in the past 5 years. First was at the end of our track so it was an easy recovery. Two years ago it happened 14 miles away. I’d no option other than to drive home in four wheel drive (slowly).

Despite that the rear offside drive bearing and assembly was trashed, metal on metal. I had to replace the whole bearing and housing plus the drive shaft and oil seals etc. But interestingly as posted I had a zombie drive shaft on that side. It broke as posted at the diff end which was 10 splines but at the wheel end it was 24 splines. Sheite part supply these but I don’t understand why there’s this odd combination. Anyone?
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the finer spline makes a stronger shaft, the diff end in the 1990s went 24 spline too
 
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