Thread: Range goes clunk & will only drive with diff locked

Hi Dave

Stop driving her (when you say center diff locked // do you mean rear diff??)

Diff lock means both axels are locked tight and you are about to snap axels

You have lost / broken your spider gears or hemisphere
Bucket loads of metal are now chewing at the whole diff

Time to pull out diff centers and stick in new

Regards Mike

You have broken something in either the front or rear axle, halfshaft, diff or CV.

Thanks Guys - sounds ominous (and expensive) and too risky to drive so will get a tow.

Cheers

Dave

If it was a CLUNK then silence, its most likely an axle and safe to continue to drive with CDL in, but if it was a clunk grind crunch or clunk.......................clunk, type sound, its probably a diff centre, which may well lock whilst driving, so limping home at a sedate pace is the option

Originally Posted by mike 90 RR

Hi Dave

Stop driving her (when you say center diff locked // do you mean rear diff??)

Diff lock means both axels are locked tight and you are about to snap axels

You have lost / broken your spider gears or hemisphere
Bucket loads of metal are now chewing at the whole diff

Time to pull out diff centers and stick in new

Regards Mike

He means centre diff lock, which means both front and rear diffs are solidly linked, but if something has let go in one of them (which obviously has) there is nothing to produce windup

Will be an axel or diff.
Are you handy with the spanners?
If so I have a diff centre that might fit.

Originally Posted by rovercare

If it was a CLUNK then silence, its most likely an axle and safe to continue to drive with CDL in, but if it was a clunk grind crunch or clunk.......................clunk, type sound, its probably a diff centre, which may well lock whilst driving, so limping home at a sedate pace is the option

How are us laymen supposed to cope if you mechanics keep using technical language we don't understand?

Originally Posted by vnx205

How are us laymen supposed to cope if you mechanics keep using technical language we don't understand?

I'm not a mechanic