you wouldnt believe it!!!

[drseg]

after much searchin kind kind chris supplies me with a dif for the samuri great i thought now the bad bit pullin away from traffic lights i heard a bang and drive ceased oh dear unbelievably i was in the geep and i thought the auto box had blown up but no the prop is merrily spinning away but without drivin anythin i would have expected clanking etc but nothing at all havnt stripped it down yet that'll have to wait for the weekend it did go kinda bang though not very loudly any ideas ????

[techsec]

When T4 did something similar it was one of the half shafts. This was way before its present stage of morphing when it was in standard Escort format.
That way there is just the bang but no grating and no drive.
Whether that is what has happened on your Geep I do not know but possible.
Try jacking the bum into the air and see if the wheels turn each other.
If so then it is not the half shafts but something more seriously wrong in the diff.

[drseg]

yeah the consensus in the pub and around the garages i deiver to seems to be halfshaft towing it to my mates friday to strip it after work saturday then prolly hunt the shaft will begin lol cheers chris

[techsec]

If it is half shaft we may be able to help.
Are you on MK1 or MK2?

[Mister frosty]

Got a spare axle for a mk2 Escort based Geep going cheap if it's of any interest?

[drseg]

mk 2 based yes the axle is interesting where are you? how much do you want for it? cheers

[Mister frosty]

Want £30 for the axle (it is filled with synthetic gear oil). Don't know the ratio but it seemed to work well with the 1300 kent engine. i'm based in Chesterfield derbyshire. Have i sold you some panels recently?

[drseg]

nope not bought any panels
but i'll buy the axle for 30
give me a call on 07712 837987 when its convenient as i'm gonna try to fix it this weekend [i'm in birmingham so not too far away] i work sat mornings in a car spares shop [sadly no axles] but i dont go to bed till about 1am so call any time and i'll arrange to pick it up
cheers m8

[drseg]

1.30 pm saturday afternoon jacked up geep fitted axle stands [as mr haynes always says in his manuals] turned one wheel by hand with auto box in park other wheel doesnt turn aha!! must be a half shaft - pulled halfshafts [came out really easy] nope both in one piece with splines removed dif looked ok...... ahhhhh hang on there arnt any of the littlest cogs in the planetary gear set so half shafts are effectively not connected - new dif required or axle [please give me a call mr Frosty] strange there were no grinding graunching noises though just a few chips on the remaining larger planetary cogs [if ya gotta dif i want one 07712 837987 as its up on stands on my mates drive difless and forlorn]

[IanA]

Hi Dave
Good luck with the diff search.

What did you use to withdraw the half-shafts??? I need to do some diff swapping soon, did you need a slide hammer???
Cheers
Ian

[drseg]

yep sure do but i have a slide hammer wanna borrow it?

[drseg]

Mister frosty to the rescue with an axle off a geep he has broken [has lots of wheels if anyones interested] gave us perfect directions - except blind bats that we are missed the hospital sign mounted on the wall but we saw it on the way home {sigh} hmmm home was hard virtual gridlock in chesterfield m1 closed for a crash eventually got out and headed away and found the m1 again got to the pub with plenty of time to spare [the important thing] but jans granada still has the axle living in it for now [keeps it dry] so thanks yet again to a fellow jago owner for extracting me from the mire and pleasing my mate Dave the fireman whose drive the geep is languishing on diflessly [good word that!!] Deepest Thanks Mister Frosty yet another nice jago owning bloke ive met and good luck with the patio!! hopefully see you at stoneleigh
Anyone ever met a nasty Jago owner??
Dave

[techsec]

A nasty Jago Owner.

I don't think I have met a nasty owner, some slightly moody but not nasty.
On the whole most Jago Owners are really friendly folks.

[dave36]

Bad tempered, arrogant, big headed, downright rude and nasty yes - the previous owner of an unregistered jeep I got for spares and gave away - minus wellers and a few other bits.
Ex minister in Maggies cabinet, the Earl of *********
god help us if he ever gets re-elected

[techsec]

So there are some nasty (ex) owners out there.

[drseg]

tomorrows the dif swap day old one already out "just" gotta strip the axle kindly sold to me by mister frosty so if anyone is passing four oaks sutton coldfield and hears swearing you'll know its not going well!!!

[drseg]

jobs a good 'un dif swapped in smoothly shafts pulled out of new axle sweetly all bolts nuts came off easy bolted in and away i went with a perfect dif just as mister frosty said cheers m8 a happy jagoer am i!!