Diff-oil Changing Procedure..
05-03-2009, 12:45 PM
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Diff-oil Changing Procedure..
How do you guys change oil in your diffs? I just did my center, and it was a greasy, stainy mess.. How thoroughly do you have to clean the individual gears??
Does it necessarily have to fxxx up your linkage setting?...
Dumb questions I know.. Would just like to find a more efficient and less sloppy procedure for doing it..
Does it necessarily have to fxxx up your linkage setting?...
Dumb questions I know.. Would just like to find a more efficient and less sloppy procedure for doing it..
05-03-2009, 04:55 PM
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RE: Diff-oil Changing Procedure..
I'm lazy and tend not to have much time, so I just clean off what grease I can and fill. Most other people will disassemble everything, run all gears individually in water or a bath and get them super clean, reassemble, then fill. I'm messy and get grease and everything all over my hands...but I'm messy whenever I work on my RCs or real cars.
05-03-2009, 10:27 PM
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RE: Diff-oil Changing Procedure..
I just run a little denatured alcohol through mine, check nothing is super worn. Drain out the alcohol, blow any excess out, and fill er up. Been doing this for almost 10 gallons on my truggy (stock/LRP engine....) and its not showing a significant sign of wear [8D]
05-05-2009, 01:28 AM
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RE: Diff-oil Changing Procedure..
ORIGINAL: Chris_RC
Namptha and GMK diff dunkers or a tea strainer does the job.
Namptha and GMK diff dunkers or a tea strainer does the job.
What's that stuff? The tea strainer I can figure out.. Great idea.. I'll go to the hardware store today and look for something similar..
Always crazy figuring this stuff out cuz I have to translate it all to German.. Anybody know what "denatured" is in German?? (kidding - www.leo.org should tell me...)
Anyway, that is the kind of thing I was looking for. Would like to be able to just open the diff, and dump the gears, oil and grime and all, in a strainer, and bathe it in whatever and have them come out all shiny clean ready to go back in.. Instead of going through half a roll of paper towels and spending an hour like last time...
