06-03-2019, 05:41 PM
I have just done a D type axle with exactly that sort of goo in it, not been apart for at least 30 years I reckon.
I try not to dismantle where I don't have to, but having washed the thing out with about 8 lots of petrol which was still coming out, dark brown with flakes of stuff in it, I took the whole thing to bits.
I was glad I did, the brown goo was all the way to the axle ends, took scraping with a length of pipe and final pull through with rags, and I am sure I didn't get it all out.
In the process I found that during the standing period the a/c diff bearings had corroded at the bottom - even with all that goo in them.
Maybe washing with hot diesel would have done it, I doubt it.
Next bit: can I get it back together? Tomorrow's job, if the bits arrive.
Simon
I try not to dismantle where I don't have to, but having washed the thing out with about 8 lots of petrol which was still coming out, dark brown with flakes of stuff in it, I took the whole thing to bits.
I was glad I did, the brown goo was all the way to the axle ends, took scraping with a length of pipe and final pull through with rags, and I am sure I didn't get it all out.
In the process I found that during the standing period the a/c diff bearings had corroded at the bottom - even with all that goo in them.
Maybe washing with hot diesel would have done it, I doubt it.
Next bit: can I get it back together? Tomorrow's job, if the bits arrive.
Simon