Thread: Greasing drive hubs and axles on defenders?

Originally Posted by camel_landy

I always stick some grease in the rubber cap...

As for welding the flanges to the axles, yes it can be done but best done from new as worn splines will just help break the weld. Mine were done by LR from new when my 110 went out on the Camel Trophy... The weld eventually broke somewhere while touring around Oz and I replaced with a set of Maxi Drives.

HTH

M

I always thought any welding on axles was a real NO-NO......local hardening/embrittlement leads to failures.....of welds, of axles.......press fitting on or induction heating and shrink fitting on were the way to go, I always thought.

Originally Posted by british4wd

Remove the circlip on the axle then unbolt the flange which will then slip off the axle. Grease the splines with top quality waterproof grease, we use Wynns Ultra Supreme in our workshop as we find it a brilliant product

Alan

Grease doesn't work, once the contact point is displaced with drive pressure there is is no urge to relubricate.
A floating axle spline must be oil lubricated,
(I cannot believe LR engineers allowed this to happen)
Just another reason why there is so much Jap machinery running around.

Originally Posted by byron

I always thought any welding on axles was a real NO-NO......local hardening/embrittlement leads to failures.....of welds, of axles.......press fitting on or induction heating and shrink fitting on were the way to go, I always thought.

Normally, it would be a no-no but these guys were only looking to get 2k out of the truck & knew the sort of onditions they were about to go into!

M