How Hard/Long To remove Center Diff?

[McGruffAWD]

I am almost postive i lost my center diff. I am going to put it on jacks tomorrow to confirm this. My question is how long and hard is it to remove the center diff? I have the V-FAQ on it and it looks pretty easy if i take my time and do it right. Also any pointers anyone can give me? And one more thing. Should i just do the dealer rebuild kit? or order a whole new one? I cant spend over 500 dollars for one. Anyone have any good suggestions? Thanks.

 

[McGruffAWD]

Anyone? I cant believe noone has done this before by themselfs..there is a whole V-FAQ on it.

 

[set3422]

Originally posted by McGruffAWD
I am almost postive i lost my center diff. I am going to put it on jacks tomorrow to confirm this. My question is how long and hard is it to remove the center diff? I have the V-FAQ on it and it looks pretty easy if i take my time and do it right. Also any pointers anyone can give me? And one more thing. Should i just do the dealer rebuild kit? or order a whole new one? I cant spend over 500 dollars for one. Anyone have any good suggestions? Thanks.

with the tranny off, it takes about 10mins. (easy)

with the tranny attached to the engine, you need to take off cross member, downpipe, passenger axle, transfer case, so I would think probably 2 hours. (hard, especially laying down)

 

[McGruffAWD]

huh? The V-FAQ does it in the car and doesnt say anything about taking off the T-Case or what not. You sure about that?

 

[2-0turbo]

No, you don't have to pull Tcase and DP and such. Pull pax wheel and fender liner. Pull end cover off tranny. This will expose 5th gear. You will have to remove 5th gear (input and intermediate gears) and pull the next "sandwich" off. It is about 2" thick, going from memory. That will expose the input/intermediate shafts (1-4 gears) and the center diff.

The problem with this is I don't know if you will ever get it back together without leaking. I guess you can do this in the car. I have pull the end cover off mine and my tranny leaks at the joints. You just can't get a good RTV seal with the thing in the car.

I would pull the tranny--especially if you have never done this before. My buddy and I can have the tranny OUT on a 1G AWD DSM in about 1 hour. From there, 10 minutes sitting on a bench. 1.5 hours to reinstall and its good.

 

[set3422]

Originally posted by 2-0turbo
No, you don't have to pull Tcase and DP and such. Pull pax wheel and fender liner. Pull end cover off tranny. This will expose 5th gear. You will have to remove 5th gear (input and intermediate gears) and pull the next "sandwich" off. It is about 2" thick, going from memory. That will expose the input/intermediate shafts (1-4 gears) and the center diff.

The problem with this is I don't know if you will ever get it back together without leaking. I guess you can do this in the car. I have pull the end cover off mine and my tranny leaks at the joints. You just can't get a good RTV seal with the thing in the car.

I would pull the tranny--especially if you have never done this before. My buddy and I can have the tranny OUT on a 1G AWD DSM in about 1 hour. From there, 10 minutes sitting on a bench. 1.5 hours to reinstall and its good.

the reason i pulled the tc because i wanted to replace the outputshaft seal. Eaither way works, but like you said i hate dealing after putting stuffs together and watching it leaks. While I'm under there, mind as well take a little more time and do it conservatively. Good luck.

 

[ASZRAEL1266]

how much is it for a new center diff? i might need to do this. I don't want to spend alot of money but if i have to then i will.