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Diff oil... how much is too much?
Major Stare - 11/10/09 at 07:53 PM

Im loosing diif oil out of my diff breather.

Everytime i go out for a drive i end up with a pool of diff oil on my diffuser.

I can only see it coming from the breather.

I drained it recently and put new diff oil in, just under 1ltr.

Is that too much?
Will it find its own level?
The diff wines under some low down revs, is this normal?


ReMan - 11/10/09 at 07:56 PM

Normal, same as mine
Keeps oiling the back of the chassis, but whenever I try and top it up its already full


madteg - 11/10/09 at 07:58 PM

I lost some on a track day and pit it down to wheel spin foaming the oil up, left it at the level it ended up at have not lost anymore since.


RichardK - 11/10/09 at 08:15 PM

Usually fill it until it dribbles out but later ford revised this and advised and L shaped bit of wire to used as a guide, if my memory serves me right it was 10mm below the diff filler hole.

I on the other hand have replaced the short vent pipe with a much longer one that goes right up to just below the roll bar top platform and the p clipped back down to the bottom.

I'll try and get a picture later.

Cheers

Rich



[Edited on 11/10/09 by RichardK]


coozer - 11/10/09 at 10:13 PM

Hope my new lsd is OK as the breather is snapped off clean with the diff....

You putting a Duratec in the Bruise Rich?


RichardK - 12/10/09 at 03:29 PM

Yep that's next winters project, rose jointing all the back end this year and new dash are this years plans, plus want you and David (Flak) to find out all the stuff that doesn't work Lazy get aren't I Off to that Malton thing this weekend if its dry and that'll be its last run out, u2u me if you're still planning to go.

Cheers

Rich