Gee, there's someting a little off with that diff fluid... (1 Viewer)

[toyteg08]

i did that...sound insulting? no...my pride died long long ago,

Then it died again and again after realizing I could afford to buy an 80 but not pay somebody to fix it for me. my pride's got a lot of lives....

That's why I spent the extra effort to broadcast my idiocy with pictures so others may avoid the same heartache of an expensive fix resulting from an easily avoidable mistake.

btw I also had quite a 'method' in place for organizing the myriad of hardware --> bagged, tagged, trayed nicely when I tore down passenger the side, by the time i got around to the driver side I got lazy...I was a pro by then.....out went the organization, throw everything into the coffee can...

so yea obvious guy says "tag your junk" but like everything else...good ideas are only as good as their practical implementation

....find some way that will work for you to organize your parts when you tear down stuff like this, bag and tag, cardboard, whatever, just find some way to organize that you can stick with.

Your idiocy? No dude. It was an honest mistake. They look virtually the same.

I can afford an 80, but not the mechanic's bill to go with it, as well. So, you're not the only one. I knew when I had to sell my pickup and get something with room for my family, that I wanted an FZJ80, and I was prepared to do whatever work needed to be done on it myself.

The bag and tag method sounds better and more professional than my cardboard. At least you won't make the mistake of hurrying through something or feeling like you've mastered it next time.

I sure do miss my old truck (shameless unrelated pic to post for no particular reason ):

Some guy bought it for his teenage son as his first vehicle, and the kid emailed me the other day asking how he'd know it was time for an oil change, because his oil light has been on for awhile. When he picked the truck up, he pointed to the air intake tube and asked if that's where the exhaust gas came out of...

I feel like I betrayed my truck. I wish I hadn't been hard up to sell it.

At least you're not clueless like that when it comes to auto repair. THAT'S idiocy.

 

[Brentbba]

For me, it was the inner oil seal leaking. You can't really tell from the poor quality picture, but that fluid in the bucket is fairly thick, compared to clean gear oil anyway. The grease in the hubs and birfields was about the consistency of honey when I pulled the axles out. My truck has 130K mi, and I think if the service has been done before, it's only been once.

Thanks, mine did drain out like the consistency of maple syrup. Yours truely did the birf job a year or so ago, so the inner axle oil seal 'should be' ok.