Well, I had lots a fun this weekend. But there weren't much wheeling... I had only driven 150km (of the 600km) on my way to Raajarvi just outside Rovaniemi Finland before my rear diff broke down. It was one of the bolts holding the carrier bearings that had unscrewed itself. Had an extra diff with me and after being towed to a nearby garage I changed it. A break line broke down to, so I had to get a rally-driver living nearby to make me a new one.
Well, got going again... The next day we checked the gears on the broken down diff, the damage was acceptable so we got a finnish mechanic to set it up and that was impressive. We changed back again and the car was ready for the competition saturday morning.
On the first check post I ran over a three trunk and blew a tire! So I had to change it. I ran one more post with 4wd before I blew the CV joint rescuing a Jeep (with a hot blond Swedish girl in) out of a mud/water pond.
We took the left front side apart, checked for damaged and found that the joint was ok and put everything back together. tested it and after rolling the car forward 1 m the cv popped out again. We took it out once again and welded on a few rods to prevent it from popping out. But something else has twisted so when it turned it wanted to pop out again.
We went to eat and took a time out. After a while we decided to run enough posts to get a result. And we minimum had to get 10 approved posts. So we ran 17 post with only rear wheel drive. After about 10 point with 2H we rearranged the vacuum system for the ADD so that it disconnected when put in 4wd so that we could save the clutch and also get better control.
So now I have started collecting parts to do a LJ70 front axle swap for my car! Also some arbs are on my to-do list...
The garage that set up my rear diff took the cost with new gears and are installing it as soon as it gets here...
I`m still a bit tired though...
some pix are posted here...
http://pirate4x4.no/forum/showthread.php?t=4630
Knix