4x4TruckinGirl
"Cowgirl"
I think I tore up my rear end.......
Soo.... Gunna try and make this long story short..... Last week I replaced the rear diff fluid in my truck because while trying to replace the ABS wheel speed sensor (on top of the diff) the whole thing cam apart and the little metal cup that it sat in fell into the diff. Simple, take all the bolts off, pull little metal cup up, clean cover and diff up, RTV it, let it set, fill er up and off we go. No problems there. Now upon looking inside it (I have no clue what I'm looking at) The tone ring had a chipped tooth, but I'm not too worried bout that, cause if my speedo still didn't work then fine, I wasn't rebuilding the rear end just for that. Fast forward.... today......
Fire the truck up, move it into the lower pasture so I can go to the top of the hill and get the tractor going again, it's been there since JULY. I put the 4x4 on because it's a pretty steep incline with loose rock.... I move the truck up the hill about 100 feet to the next gate, hop out..... diff fluid pouring out!!!! So now theres a hole in the diff cover, thought I coulda hit a rock, but no way, nothing near big enough to hurt that out there. I watched all the fluid pour out, and now I'm cussin up a storm
Pulled the truck through the next gate, cause dayumit if it killed me that tractor was comign off the hill TODAY..... Heard some grinding and metal on metal back there. It wasn't much further so when I stopped, I took the cover off and..... There was a sheared off bolt in there and now the gash in the cover was about 4 inches long. 
The tone ring was sitting side ways, but not broken, and a bunch of bolts are backed out (the ones that hold the ring gear on) Now... in stupidity, they WERE like that the other day, I didn't touch them, they were all tight, and I didn't know any better, so I put it back together just like I found it. Moved the truck back down the hill, the drivers side has some shims stuck up in there by the carrier bearing? (forgive me, i have no idea what Im talking about really)
What in the heck should I do now?
By golly.... I got that john deere off that hillside........
Soo.... Gunna try and make this long story short..... Last week I replaced the rear diff fluid in my truck because while trying to replace the ABS wheel speed sensor (on top of the diff) the whole thing cam apart and the little metal cup that it sat in fell into the diff. Simple, take all the bolts off, pull little metal cup up, clean cover and diff up, RTV it, let it set, fill er up and off we go. No problems there. Now upon looking inside it (I have no clue what I'm looking at) The tone ring had a chipped tooth, but I'm not too worried bout that, cause if my speedo still didn't work then fine, I wasn't rebuilding the rear end just for that. Fast forward.... today......
Fire the truck up, move it into the lower pasture so I can go to the top of the hill and get the tractor going again, it's been there since JULY. I put the 4x4 on because it's a pretty steep incline with loose rock.... I move the truck up the hill about 100 feet to the next gate, hop out..... diff fluid pouring out!!!! So now theres a hole in the diff cover, thought I coulda hit a rock, but no way, nothing near big enough to hurt that out there. I watched all the fluid pour out, and now I'm cussin up a storm
Pulled the truck through the next gate, cause dayumit if it killed me that tractor was comign off the hill TODAY..... Heard some grinding and metal on metal back there. It wasn't much further so when I stopped, I took the cover off and..... There was a sheared off bolt in there and now the gash in the cover was about 4 inches long. The tone ring was sitting side ways, but not broken, and a bunch of bolts are backed out (the ones that hold the ring gear on) Now... in stupidity, they WERE like that the other day, I didn't touch them, they were all tight, and I didn't know any better, so I put it back together just like I found it. Moved the truck back down the hill, the drivers side has some shims stuck up in there by the carrier bearing? (forgive me, i have no idea what Im talking about really) What in the heck should I do now?By golly.... I got that john deere off that hillside........
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