Has anyone blown out thier Diff Lock?

Living up to your name?


Rebuilding a power divider would probably start at $1,500 & go up rapidly the more parts are broken. Wouldn't expect to break one in 5 miles though.

 

how long did you have it locked in? Five miles isn't going to destroy it. Unless you meant that you've had it locked in since last winter, that could be a problem.....

 

A truck driver of the past that I know had a nose cone go out on him down in Lousiness pulling a dump trailer loaded with rip. Back behind him was a small town with a place that sold trucks. Just happned there was on that lot jus like his. So off on side of the road he got his tool box out climbed under his truck taking the nose cone off.

After it got dark he walked back to this truck lot, climbed under the truck like his, took the nose cone off, them put his on it. Them waked back down & installed that nose cone on his truck, & away he went.

I do not know of anyone in our county that would trust this man. He had a brother that also drove a truck yet he was 100% opposite of him, probably everyone in our county would trust him will most anything they had.

Being as this was the subject I thought I would tell the true story about this, but I do not recommend that anyone try this.

 

Have you checked your oil for metal?
If you drove up till now with bits off metal floating around.............you might have broken all.

 

Did you try them again?

 

Hi Broken, personally, I never have, but that's because I have an understanding of what a PDL does. 1st, you should have a light on the dash indicating "PDL engaged", and 2nd, flipping the switch while the other wheels are spinning(while stuck) is detrimental to the PDL, and it only takes 1 time to ruin it. I'd check the oil in the front drive axle, if it looks like metallic paint, and you said it's making noise, it's probably a chipped gear, and the metal in the oil makes it's way to the bearings, ruining them and eventually takes out the axle or drive shaft seals.