Topping up the diff modifier

[stigmundfreud]

Anyone got a quick proceedure to topping up the diff modifier? Think I need a smidging more to go in, anyone got a quick rough guide as to where the filler is on the dif and how easy is it to get to? Size of tool needed etc

ta

[Gas_Man]

Jack up rear of car a foot or so (tips diff forward so oil runs away from filler point)
1" socket (or spanner) to undo big nut at top right of rear of diff.
Squirt it in
Replace and go...
(that is for the Harrop diff cover but procedure is the same for the standard one.)
Just did mine today (again)

[stigmundfreud]

cheers! never having jacked the ro from the rear whats the best lifiting point for it?

[Yorkkie]

park on a sloping drive with the car pointing down the hill rear wheels directly on the point of the slope. I used a piece of plasticised paper to make a simple funnel into the filler.

Andy

[doleboy]

stigmundfreud said:

cheers! never having jacked the ro from the rear whats the best lifiting point for it?

Don't jack it up by the diff mate 'cause that's what makes it leak in the first place - and don't let tyre fitters do it either. A sloping road/driveway and a short length of tubing is good enough though.

[stigmundfreud]

wouldnt jack on the diff The sloping drive sounds an idea, is it easy to get to then? I've been trying to find a set of inspection ramps but they only come to support 165 wide tyres!? Who has only 165's any more?

[Gas_Man]

I did it the first time on the slopey drive... but sooo much easier if you can get a couple of extra inches. I have a mate at a tyre fitting place. he jack the rear of the car up on the ramp for me... doddle then.

[stigmundfreud]

I had thought of that but I just got a pair of custom made ramps for a hundred notes.... should make life a lot safer/easier

[Gas_Man]

I'm guessing back UP the slopey drive onto the ramps should be about the easiest option then! Good luck.

The 1" nut is to the top right of this image on the Harrop one.

[stigmundfreud]

the car is only very slightly knocking/clunking usually from very low speed pulling away/turning never at speed. Obviously I know thats the nature of th beast with lsd's but I believe putting too much slip modifier in basically rreturns the car to the factory state of it not atually working?

[Yorkkie]

2 squirts more should do it.

[stigmundfreud]

Yorkkie said:

2 squirts more should do it.

ramps arrive friday, its fine at speed just this evening, as an example, was on a gravel carp park and during the reverse it was clunking - when you say two squirts how longs a squirt

[Bonnie&Clyde]

Stig, "Carp park" Did you have to watch out for lots of big orange and silver and black fish

[stigmundfreud]

it was an upperclass kind of joint, it was a Coy Carp park

[marcevo1]

wheres the best place to buy the moddifier? how much do you need to put in? what grade of fluid should it be filled with prior to the moddifier?

so many questions.... ;-)

something i think i should get around to doing.

[Well_Fans]

I cheated and stuck in Royal Purple which comes premixed with the modifier. Does the job just fine.

[crisisjez]

stigmundfreud said:

it was an upperclass kind of joint, it was a Coy Carp park

So they were shy as well?

[stigmundfreud]

tenuous jokes number 287!

Marcevo speak to Monkfish thats who did the oil replacement and modifier. You sometimes have to top it up a little after the intial bedding in.

If anyone wants some ramps look for the ebay link in this thread http://www.pistonheads.com/xforums/topic.asp?h=0&a...

they take up to 250 width but thats the limit, however, they may do custom ones.

[V2RAC]

What's the symptoms when diff needs an extra squirt of modifier? What does this stuff actually do. Not well up on LSD's. Please enlighten the uninformed. Cheers.

[stigmundfreud]

on a wet coi car park try pointing in a straight line then giving it some minerals. If your back end goes out sideways the diffs working fine if you just go straight or spin a wheel the diff needs attention.

The downside of getting the diff working as it should is low speed (sub 5mph) clunks at times