Differential service
#1
Differential service
This weekend I serviced the rear axle, changed oil, installed new cover and bolts. As careful as possible tried to remove filler plug. No luck. Tried extractors, stripped square wrench hole round and finally drilled plug to 1/2 inch, put in a rubber plug off a Jeep. Filled two quarts with new plunger pump didn't spll a drop. There was about two pints of grungy fluid in there at onset drained and scoured around gears with a telescopic magnet. Probably first time oil was changed in 216,000 miles. Gears looked good after all that. Sometimes it's the little victories. Next guy can torch out the remains of the plug. Next stop front diff.
#7
I agree, I picked a hand pump thing that tightens onto the bottle of gear oil and it pumps it right into whatever you want pretty much... I think it cost me around $9 or $10 bucks at Auto Zone.
#9
Wow, you aren't kidding, a 5 gallon bucket... Nice little set up there.
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