Thread: BANG!!

Originally Posted by JDNSW

The whole thing. Just the case is too short!

Cartridge facing up or down? I can't decide which would be worse.

Brings to mind an incident in KL when I worked in the High Commission there.
I kept on blowing fuses in the power circuit.
Mr Loh the HC contractor sends his lowest paid bloke with a light bulb on two bits of wire. No joy so the bloke whacks a nail in the fuse holder.

They had opined that the problem was in the wires outside so called the electrical authority.

I was out and drove into the driveway to the maid running outside screaming that the fridge had just blown up, just as the electrical authority bloke was trying to extract a bribe for the nail. So they were all having a heated argument.

Everything went quiet .

The fridge fan in the freezer was the culprit.

Ah memories.
The land was so mineralized that the circuit breakers used to trip when there was a lightning strike nearby of which there were many. It is a bit daunting to run into the carport when a strike has just taken out a palm tree next door.

Regards Philip A

I received the good news today that my beloved D2 is fixed.
I also received the bad news of the price.

It would seem that I have completely chewed up the rear diff which didn't do the axels a lot of good along with some other bits.
Anyway a reconed diff & new axels are now in place & they tell me it is running fine, I hope so.
I figure while it is in the Isa I will get a service/oil change & grease job done.

So, $550 to truck her down + $3750 for the diff et all + the service? + truck back to Doomcity?
Should have taken her out & shot her!

Looking forward, very much, to getting her back.

jonesfam

Ouch!

Originally Posted by jonesfam

I received the good news today that my beloved D2 is fixed.
I also received the bad news of the price.

It would seem that I have completely chewed up the rear diff which didn't do the axels a lot of good along with some other bits.
Anyway a reconed diff & new axels are now in place & they tell me it is running fine, I hope so.
I figure while it is in the Isa I will get a service/oil change & grease job done.

So, $550 to truck her down + $3750 for the diff et all + the service? + truck back to Doomcity?
Should have taken her out & shot her!

Looking forward, very much, to getting her back.

jonesfam

Bugger.
It Sucks breaking down around the Isa, Looks like they charge like a wounded bull there.
I had the rear diff replaced in Geraldton on my D2a with a second hand one 80,000k's ago for about $600 fitted and it hasn't missed a beat.

Thursday I managed to bum a lift to Mt Isa to pick up the (used to be) Mighty D2.
The just completely replaced the whole rear axel, diff, brake discs etc with a new reconed one.
First thing they did was show me the old diff. I don't know what happened there but whatever it was has knocked a hole in the diff housing?
Don't know why that would stop it working, it's only a smallish hole.

Second thing I noticed is the rather loud whine the car has had since I bought it has gone? I originally thought the whine was the mud tyres but have suspected for some time it was probably something a bit more drastic, I was going to have it checked out next Cairns trip - didn't make it that far.
Somewhere, on the truck to Mt Isa?, my instrument binnacle has come loose, so another think to fix.
The drive home through the hills was absolutely problem free except for idiot tourist.

I'm very pleased to have my D2 back, now to save up for some new (NON Mud) tyres.
I have tried to attach photos of the old diff?

Jonesfam

Probably from the cross shaft of the planetary gears dropping out and catching on the housing.

There is a circlip which holds it in place unless you spin the wheels too long and the gears catch on the shaft, the shaft turns and drives the circlip out of it's groove, the shaft can then move then Bang!
Regards Philip A

Axle in the background of yours, in pic 2, looks a lot like a troopy axle too.