Thread: advice on rebuilding salisbury and a few other issues

Another thing to consider is if you drove 1000ks home driving on the front diff only is the crown wheel bolts on the front diff.
Its not unknown after these scenarios that the bolts loosen causing issues.

I thought that:

Power to solenoid = engine on
No power to solenoid = engine off

If that's the case it seems unlikely cleaning it will help as if it was a connection issue then the engine would stop...????

yes has oil, when I pull diff ill take some picks and find out exactly whats gone wrong, the 130 has done near on 400000 clicks of which I know 6500km of so I would be happy to get another 400000 out of a new diff.
the axle ends looked fine at the time I'm still packing away our gear and cleaning campertrailer and car so give me till the weekend for pics

well it appears I may have been a little hasty in saying my salisbury had died on inspection of removing the cover I found that it looked in pretty good condition(no worn patch on ring gear or any metal fragments in housing) and spun quite freely (with driveshaft removed and no axles) so I thought I would take another look at axles and drive flanges to find this. Once I noticed this I twigged that when I removed this axle I remember thinking thats odd I had to belt the flange off with the hammer instead of just normally pulling off by hand( I guess in the heat of the moment and my kids climbing over me to get moving it just didn't register.

All too common with greased hub bearings.

Get a new drive flange, pull the stub axle, remove the axle oil seal, fit an RTC3511 hub seal, lots of diff oil over the bearings and put it all back together, and you can overfill the diff a bit too.

That won't happen again

guess I'm up for a new set of maxi drive axles and flanges as the passenger side looks worn as well.

now to next issues lack of power in top end and oil cooler hoses.
and here is a shot of the rig (ella) as promised

rick i did have oil fed bearings although when i changed the bearings for the first time when i got vehicle i had noticed what looked to be a mixture of grease and oil on old bearings

make sure the transfer case is not a disco case as the gearing will be too tall for the 300 tdi 130. I 'd ensure that the fuel supply side of things is ok before going further on the hunt for low power.