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I took a picture of my diff and to my amazement, I could not believe what I saw...
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Nut missing from Watts linkage.
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I doubt it'd have no oil in it, diffs have a tendancy to weld the crownwheel and pinion together after 5kms of driving when they have no oil :P
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So whats the answer then?
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The "no oil" was on there when I bought the diff from the wreckers, meaning there was no oil in it, derr. Now when I installed the diff I must have for gotten to do it up with the rattle gun and its loosened its self off.
I just went down to the wreckers and they gave me the bolt and washers for free. I believe it has been missing for a while as I has been hearing weird thumping noises. Plus my handbrake cable keeps coming off (I thinks its stretched), so I'll have to fix that as well. Off to fix it now....
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At least the handbrake cable isn't too hard a job to do. Good luck with it mate
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Replacing diffs sucks. If you can afford to pay someone to do it, fork out the money and save the bull ****
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![]() With the tools I needed and err, ummm, with a bit of help from the dog, i was straight into it.. ![]() These were the parts needed, ![]() ...and this was that handbrake line that keeps disconnecting itself, but ill get to that later... ![]() With the car in the air and the jack stands under the diff I could safely start fixing it. ![]() I put the nut on and tightened it up... ![]() I cheated a bit an used two spanners to get better leverage. ![]() There, all done with that. ![]() ![]() I used a cable tie to secure it on and hold it there so it wont come off again, i did the same to the other side and cut the ends off. Quote:
The diff wasnt too hard to replace, but I had access to a hoist, tools and a couple of mates to help me out. But it still can be done without a hoist. Is all you do is jack up car from chassis, drop tail shaft, watts link, sway bars, and lower trailing arm. Then undo shock absorber bolts, diff drops down, and remove. Remove brakes and axles, switch them over and installation is the reversal of removal. Then just top it up with LSD oil and away you go. The only problem I ran into was that the xr's have different adjustment in the diffs, meaning that it either points down more than standard falcons. So is all I did was check were my original bolt line up on my stock diff. ![]() As you can see in this picture, the different adjustment. Without changing this my tail shaft vibrated very violently from go, as the diff was pointing down. Now I went from 3.08 to 3.45 ratio so speedo was out massively, so I had to change my speedo drive gear from the brown one with 20 teeth (standard) on it to a black one I purchased from Ford which has 23 teeth on it. Now speedo works fine. EDIT: I think it took me 2 hours to change, then another 30mins to fix the tail shaft vibration.
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Thanks for the extra info.
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Put your reading glasses on, it says LSD on that tag.
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Utes run a leaf spring so are no good for a sedan, could use the centre though.
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How was the differance going from a 3.08 to a 3.45 ratio? Was it very noticable?
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When I changed the speedo gear, it was then that I realised that my car accelerated a bit more, but im always looking at my speedo and rpm so it was heaps different to me. Since its auto the lock up/one way clutch engages at 70km/h instead of 80km/h, which is good because the streets around where I live is all 70km/h. RPM at 100km/h went from 1850 to 2100.
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AU1 Forte - 17'' AU2 Tickford rims on all corners, Super low springs,
KYB shock absorbs + camber castor kit and a 3.45 LSD, Tickford snorkel, 3" mandrel intake, K&N pod in the box, Polished Rocker Cover. |
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