freaking overflow on front diff

[LittleBigFoot]

I run 80w90 and that's a nice green color like coolant. Green, or gold most of the time.

Try pickin up some hose and runnin your breather lines up into your air box under the hood. I can't remember which way you point it, but one makes a vaccum in the diff (stops leaks but sucks up anything it can) and one builds pressure causing leaks but helps keep shit out.

 

[dangeranger01]

It's even more fun with a locker up front!

Try a locker and a broken axle if you want tourque steer, lol.



pyrosity: You get it changed yet? Pulling the pig isnt to much fun with the ol' TTB.

 

[Hahnsb2]

Try a locker and a broken axle if you want tourque steer, lol.

Yeah I tried it with one hub unlocked... Compensate on the steering wheel while accelerating then let off to shift and go darting across the road!

 

[That Baker Guy]

sorry to hijackk butt, i opened my rear diff to check fluid level on a completely flat surface and i had this grey smelly oil pour out on me is that a bad thing?, i didnt check to see if it stopped i just plugged it back up and said ill deal with it later?

 

[BRUTUS_T_HOG]

grey is usually just oil with metallic specks mixed in.. its somewhat normal depending on milage.. but should be changed.. water mixed in would make it look like old milk.. or a milkshake.

 

[That Baker Guy]

okay welll im going to get it changed soon, my 93 only has 120k miles but if it looks like that then its going to go.

 

[BRUTUS_T_HOG]

yeah 120k is usually when they are grey.. it will last much longer with fresh oil

and i HATE that song by the way.. i hear it about 26 times DAILY... for the past 4 months

 

[Original_Ranger84]

The reason you can't use 4x4 on pavement is because there is no center differential, the axle diffs handle different tire speeds side to side but not front to back. This is why AWD cars have center differentials.

Um I think i get it... but its spinning the same sized tires with the same gears shouldn't they be going the same speed anyways? I didn't think the diff being to the side or in the center would make a difference? either way its spinning tires and the axles are connected...

 

[Hahnsb2]

Um I think i get it... but its spinning the same sized tires with the same gears shouldn't they be going the same speed anyways? I didn't think the diff being to the side or in the center would make a difference? either way its spinning tires and the axles are connected...

The problem comes when turning, the tires speeds will be different front to back during a turn.

I don't recommend it obviously but you could put your truck in 4x4 and attempt to turn on pavement and you'll see what I'm talking about.

 

[BRUTUS_T_HOG]

you'll hear... chirp chirp chirp or BANG BANG BANG. turning in 4wd on dry pavement puts extreme pressure on the driveline.

as was said. during a turn all 4 tires are turning at different speeds. so that is why you have a differential that allows equal torque yet different wheel speed.

 

[scotts90ranger]

and when they say center differential, they mean 3 total, one in the front, one in the back and one in the transmission/transfer case, not that they are offset to one side or the other

 

[pyrosity]

NO havent changed it...I dont have a spot to change it. Im in the middle of getting processed for discharge(retiring medically) and so we are living a simple life in our travel trailer, but changing the pumpkin in the gravel is no fun.

So what i have devised is im going to tap a whole into the bottom of the case or somewhere that has alot of meat and tap my own drain hole. Maybe Tap soome threads on her and make a plug that will make it so i dont have to deal with changing the whole pumpkin. I might also borrow my buddies evacuator and change it from the fill port.

But it is on my top things to do on my list. I hate moving, selling vehicles, buying vehicles...anything huge....Just about the time you work all the bugs out of a vehicls you end up having to sell it and then BAMM.....you buy another beater to get you by for a while and its all FUBAR......sorry for my language...

So ill get the gear oil and change it out...hopefully this sunday morning...Gonna go bear hunting with my bro SAT and hopefully get him his first bear. He's 13 so im waiting to see him shit himself when it comes in....lol...should be fun...

 

[pyrosity]

OK...so i taped a 1/4 inch hole and let her drain...and this is what i got. put a new bolt in her with a washer and rtv'd around it for safe measure...so gonna go out later today and do a little wheeln(small stuff compared to most of you guys)...but gonna basically ingage the 4 wheel drive and see how she does...ill change it one more time in a week for safe measure....get all the yucky stuff out of her....

picture below.....old stuff out and new stuff in....BOY DID IT NEED IT!

 

[BlackBII]

Good to hear you got new fluid in her!

Don't want your pinion ending up looking lika this:

 

[pyrosity]

damn man that looks terriable. good to see you got it fixed.

CAN SOME ONE TELL ME WHY MY ENGINE TEMP IS RISING EVERYTIME I GO INTO 4x4?