BANG!!

**jonesfam** · 30th May 2019, 05:48 PM

So, for the first time for ages I went camping.
Took the Grand kids who were visiting out in the camper trailer.
To get to the camping spot was a 50k's of rough road & a 25 meter water crossing about 300 deep with a rocky bottom.
Pack up in the morning, reverse out onto the road, put it in drive up a slight incline, give it a few revs, creep forward give it a few more revs &
BANG! A big noise from the back end & no forward motion.
Drop it into neutral, get out & look at every thing, no oil pouring out, nothing obvious at all.
Get back in, still no drive, try low range, no drive - stress level go up.
Try Diff lock - we have drive but doesn't feel right. Drive forward & give it a bit of revs, nope definitely feels odd, feels like I only have front wheel drive.
Now, to re-cross the water, drive in easy, going OK, get to the deeper rockier part, starts to bog down, give it a heap of welly, keeps going, struggles, gets through, up the muddy black soil exit the front TC cuts in but we make it.
Drive very steadily towards home. Now & again the car gives a thump & a shudder, don't go over 60kph, hard to hear the car over the rough surface.
Finally get to the highway, now I can her rattling/whirring noises but not loud.
Finally get home.

I have booked her onto the truck to go to Mt Isa next week. I don't trust Mt Isa mechanics but I'm limited for choice.

It's a 15 year old car & it still got us home so, although I could do without the expense I'm not as upset as I probably should be.

Life's a **** & then you die!

Jonesfam

**ian4002000** · 30th May 2019, 05:54 PM

My 130 made noises like that recently and it had a nice ride home on the tilt tray. All i had done was ripped a few teeth off the front ring gear and sheared all the bolts from the rear ring gear. Nothing that money wont fix.
I hope you have done less damage.

Ian
Bittern

**DeanoH** · 30th May 2019, 05:59 PM

Look at the bright side

If it was a D3/D4 you'd have to sell the grand kids into slavery to pay to fix it and definitely not in the Isa.

Deano

**trout1105** · 30th May 2019, 06:27 PM

Hopefully all that has happened is a snapped rear axel, Which isn't that expensive to put a SH axel in and some new oil

**alien** · 30th May 2019, 06:29 PM

Sounds similar to what I had when the pinion gears in the differential failed.
I fitted a trutrack as the repair.

**Blknight.aus** · 30th May 2019, 06:44 PM

pop the axle caps on the rear first. you may have just stripped the axle in the flange.

if its dropped a bit in the middle you can get it out with some bent wire and a good magnet on another bit of wire.

you dont even need to take the wheel off.

**alien** · 30th May 2019, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

pop the axle caps on the rear first. you may have just stripped the axle in the flange.

if its dropped a bit in the middle you can get it out with some bent wire and a good magnet on another bit of wire.

you dont even need to take the wheel off.

It’s a D2 so not that easy unfortunately.

**Graeme** · 30th May 2019, 08:00 PM

My guess is the common D2 failure of a broken shaft in the diff centre on which the 2 moon gears rotate.

**INter674** · 31st May 2019, 04:40 PM

Agree if diff is std then the roll pin will have sheared and cross shaft let loose. Both mine did it...but I caught them early and welded the shafts in situ😎🙄

Anither LR cost saver no doubt.

Roll pins are cheap n nasty and they fail all the time on farm stuff...i usually double them up which makes them last longer...or replace with a drill bit...ha ha ha

**V8Ian** · 31st May 2019, 05:51 PM

Shear pins are designed as a cheap, weak link, to save damage to more expensive bits in the chain. Think of them as a mechanical fuse.
Would you replace a 15 amp fuse with a length of number 8 fencing wire?

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