Well Hello There Fellow Technicians And Hivers!

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The First Of It's Kind!

Well hey! This is something new, you've seen it on my wall a couple of times! But now we're going to tear it open and see how this little bad boy looks inside!

I am keen on seeing this, although it might not intrigue me as much as I think it would! One thing I can say is that it took quite a bit of work to get it this far!

Let's see!

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We Have Some Knowledge.

We have done some of these before, but loose differentials and Bossman hit all of them, so this would be the first for me but we do know that the front part does not have oil inside and is only a viscous coupling.

The rest of it, well I'm sure that contains oil!

It's only a bearing that gave way so not really that big of a job only big work to get to this!

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Well Shite.

Okay so there's oil there, must be a bearing that gave in and then making the seal collapse.

You have to know what you're dealing with even if you don't know what you're working on and how it works. We never really go in blind with anything at all we do have some research that we do before just pulling these apart!

But surely the oil in that part of the differential should not be there.

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A Dirty Old Thing.

She is nasty inside that much is certain but then again it makes sense since you can't do a oil change on them without removing them entirely!

Yeah that's a damn stupid thing ey!

Imagine owning a Ford Kuga and you mention that you'd like a a diff oil change and they slap you with a 10 hour labour bill?

I'd likely shit my pants to be honest! It'll be like a grand for just the labour!

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Always Room For Learning.

Well I'd very much like to rip these open and show you how these seals work and heck I can't think why they designed them like this.

But basically it is two seals fitted into one another and the inner seal turns with the shaft... which makes me think that why they didn't just make a bigger wall in the seal.

Anyways it is quite a cool concept but stupid though!

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Back Burner For Now.

Okay so this is going through a dealership so there are a couple of steps needed to be taken before we can fix these, so they are going to be put on the back burner for now!

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Take note this is not a how to guide, merely myself talking about the work I do and my thoughts around certain things.

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