firepower
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Intimately........
.....Son
Cool can I borrow a tenner and the car for Saturday night please Dad
Cool can I borrow a tenner and the car for Saturday night please Dad
see #16
I cant take the credit - it was copied from another site, which is why the pics seem to have disappeared .
however??????????
here they are in glorious technicolour......
.however??????????
here they are in glorious technicolour......
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TuppyTrucker
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I cant take the credit - it was copied from another site, which is why the pics seem to have disappeared
however??????????
here they are in glorious technicolour......
Well done for the reproduction anyway.
Shame the OP didn't mention he was working on a LHD V8 at the start.
Just done the job on my RHD 300tdi, after a brake test front axle lock up dropped the difflock in and it wouldn't come out. Been meaning to get around to freeing up the selector lever for a while, but this incident forced me in to action.
I know these posts are quite old - but just wanted to thank all that posted, really came in useful.
I got away quite lightly, after 2 years of non use (it didn't snow much last winter!). I took a slightly different approach to step 1 (brute force option) after a soak in plus gas - I had a second person below the car putting pressure on the lever, as I was in the car pulling on the lever. Then when it did go in, we had to do the reverse. Several pulls and pushes later, and a load of 'plus gas' later, and all was back to normal.
This is worth a try before taking apart, the second person makes a world of difference (I'd already tried it on my own the weekend before)
I will now use monthly, promise!
Thanks Again.
Lee
I got away quite lightly, after 2 years of non use (it didn't snow much last winter!). I took a slightly different approach to step 1 (brute force option) after a soak in plus gas - I had a second person below the car putting pressure on the lever, as I was in the car pulling on the lever. Then when it did go in, we had to do the reverse. Several pulls and pushes later, and a load of 'plus gas' later, and all was back to normal.
This is worth a try before taking apart, the second person makes a world of difference (I'd already tried it on my own the weekend before)
I will now use monthly, promise!
Thanks Again.
Lee
cmryan
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I also have a diff lock that won't engage. The lever moves freely left and right and engages hi/lo ratios. I crawled underneath this afternoon and fired wd40 all over the linkages but still haven't made progress.
The problem is that lying underneath I can't see much at all to work on it. One end of the C link is visible and I can feel the other bits but how the hell are you supposed to work on it? Other than cutting a hole in the transmission tunnel like the Youtube vid I don't know what do do. I managed to get a spanner on the nut but didn't have enough room to move it. Is it safe and necessary to unbolt the drive shaft? And I kept getting grit drop in my eyes. Grrr
The problem is that lying underneath I can't see much at all to work on it. One end of the C link is visible and I can feel the other bits but how the hell are you supposed to work on it? Other than cutting a hole in the transmission tunnel like the Youtube vid I don't know what do do. I managed to get a spanner on the nut but didn't have enough room to move it. Is it safe and necessary to unbolt the drive shaft? And I kept getting grit drop in my eyes. Grrr
bloody good pressure wash from underneath and then a bright light.
cmryan
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Add to that eyeballs on stalks and a couple of extra wrist joints! Can it be accessed from above taking off the centre console?
