Dave's "S200KYS" Jimny 'laner Build...

It looks like you have a crack in the axle casing:

I think that's just marks in the dirt from where the diff guard mounts.

Kirkynut

Good work dave always good to have a freshen up.sure the locktite will do the job.i use pu sealer on anything like that now works a treat and pretty cheap.

iRTV silicone is great, never tried the 510 but reading the info on that link it looks like it's literally made for this.

not sure what peoples thoughts are with this but to get the diff out i've sometimes used a trolley jack just to help crack it, this is only when they literally will not come out. risk would be deforming the face it seals on but i've been lucky so far.

I've normally just used plumbing mastic when rebuilding diffs... and that's always been fine... in the past / with Vitaras

i'm not sure if it's the addition of the LSD in the front? Could it cause more twisting forces that could have unseated the diff in the axle casing?

i usually have to crack the seal with a specialist diff tool (a wood chisel!) to ease the two halves apart, but this time the diff was actually rocking against the axle it was that loose :blush:

Shouldn't be the diff getting hit, as it has a guard under it that is bolted to the driver's-side radius arm and clamped around the axle tube the other end, so I'm discounting that, hence the thought of the LSD?...

Just been to collect hubs back from local friendly garage...

£30 to remove old bearings and fit new... not too bad I thought?

And eldest daughter thankfully got her dates wrong! She's back to Oxford Uni' on Thursday not Wednesday, so I still get my day off tomorrow to start the rebuild