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I didn't take a pic of my hands afterward. Let's just say I was wearing part of the kit. Thankfully I only needed one "off".
I've noticed a little oil underneath lately. A tiny drip from where the driveshaft meets the rear diff. But more difficult to pin down, a pretty good leak from the transfer case/Transmission.
Today I decided to do some poking around underneath, to see if I could narrow it down. This was what I started with.
I was pretty sure the source was one of the two sending unit/switchy things on the top. I checked the oil levels, and was getting ready to clean everything off and figure out which unit to order, when I happened to nudge one of the wires with my rag. The sender rotated! WTF? It was of course the back one, but with some creative application of my 17mm wrench, I was able to tighten it back up again, and then I did a very thorough degreasing of the whole area. We'll see if this was THE problem, but I'm guessing it was?
In other news I still feel like this rig is loud. I went so far as to examine stem to stern with my mechanics stethoscope today. Kind of a high clatter sound. Yes, yes, I know. Diesels clatter. It might just be normal to the 1HZ, but I have no reference point? I've had many 4 banger turbo diesels, but none sounded like this. Almost seemed to be higher pitched at the transmission? But I don't know. There is an exhaust leak at the after end of the muffler, but that doesn't seem to be the noise I'm hearing.
All this examination was at idle, in my garage. Possibly normal. But I like to be thorough.
I've noticed a little oil underneath lately. A tiny drip from where the driveshaft meets the rear diff. But more difficult to pin down, a pretty good leak from the transfer case/Transmission.
Today I decided to do some poking around underneath, to see if I could narrow it down. This was what I started with.
I was pretty sure the source was one of the two sending unit/switchy things on the top. I checked the oil levels, and was getting ready to clean everything off and figure out which unit to order, when I happened to nudge one of the wires with my rag. The sender rotated! WTF? It was of course the back one, but with some creative application of my 17mm wrench, I was able to tighten it back up again, and then I did a very thorough degreasing of the whole area. We'll see if this was THE problem, but I'm guessing it was?
In other news I still feel like this rig is loud. I went so far as to examine stem to stern with my mechanics stethoscope today. Kind of a high clatter sound. Yes, yes, I know. Diesels clatter. It might just be normal to the 1HZ, but I have no reference point? I've had many 4 banger turbo diesels, but none sounded like this. Almost seemed to be higher pitched at the transmission? But I don't know. There is an exhaust leak at the after end of the muffler, but that doesn't seem to be the noise I'm hearing.
All this examination was at idle, in my garage. Possibly normal. But I like to be thorough.