Topic: Front diff swap.Pls Help!!

[Siringo]

Hi,

I've never done any work on the front of my Hilux, so I'm venturing into unknown waters here and I'm looking for some help.

I've just replaced my diff front and rear diff centres (3rd's). The rear was a breeze, but the front is causing me some problems. I've got everything back together and it all looks OK. I put the truck up on 4 floor stands and put her into 4WD, put it in gear, and started the motor to make sure the front wheels were engaging.

One front is OK, the other just floats around, you can actually spin it backwards. I put everything back together by the book and torqued everything up to the correct specs and everything looks OK, it's just this front wheel. When I was putting the axle back in I could never spin the axle and see the diff rotate and vice versa, when I span the diff centre, I could never see that front axle rotate. It's like it hasn't plugged into the diff properly.

Is this normal or have I stuffed something up? Everything looks like it's pushed in far enough, everything lines up fine.

Thanks for any help.

[4XFlyin]

If your front dif is stock and has an open differential than that is normal.

[Slolyfe]

If your front dif is stock and has an open differential than that is normal.

X2
Sounds normal

[Siringo [OP]]

Thanks for the replies guys I really appreciate it. After I posted I went back out and ripped off the free wheeling hub. I think I had put it back on in such a way that it wasn't engaging properly. I sat down and had a real good look at how it all works and now know, so I guess it wasn't wasted time.

After putting it all back together again, I was able to stop both front wheels (one at a time) and the other kept spinning. So I agree, it was all normal.

Many thanks again.