Thread: Blew my Diff .... :(

Originally Posted by djam1

I spent a lot of time on the Stuart Highway in the 1970s before it was sealed

The main diff housing failures were Ford 9 Inch

The axle housing of the cast diff housing?

what trucks were these in?

where the heavily overloaded?

Mostly F100s and the like generally not anymore overloaded than anything else in those days.
Housing failures

Originally Posted by djam1

Mostly F100s and the like generally not anymore overloaded than anything else in those days.
Housing failures

Do you think you could have a look at the pic of my F100 housing and tell me where they fail as have never seen that happen ? Plenty of Dana type in 150 and 250 but not the 9.375" Housing Pic under 9" fabricated diff post

Thanks AM

To be honest I probably couldn't it was a long time ago and I cant remember exactly where they broke but recall it being really common.
I think it related to where the tubes were welded to the centre part of the housing.
2 guys I knew in Alice were repairing them and I know it wasn't a difficult job to repair or strengthen them.
Really compared to a Salisbury it was dead easy to prevent it from happening.
I commented to a mate about it the other day while looking at his Ford ute and he was aware of it so it wasn't purely a NT phenomenon.

I know that this is a Pajero but it was a similar scenario to this

I finally found AM's thread on his "Rover9s" as im calling them (ford 9 diff and housing custom built with LR hubs and bracketry)

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/isuzu-land...ff-ratios.html

Originally Posted by rangieman

Thats all good but the sals on the other hand has one very important weakness which is a show stopper which is well documented that the rover diff does not suffer from
Housing failure
And at the end of the day nothing is inderstructable
Ducking for cover

When you say housing failure do you mean the back plate?
If so, get yourself an ARB rear cover.
Bloody strong bit of kit.

Love my sals

Originally Posted by noogie

When you say housing failure do you mean the back plate?
If so, get yourself an ARB rear cover.
Bloody strong bit of kit.

Love my sals

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/technical-...ailures-9.html

See post 87.