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.