Front & Real Differential Fluids

[ZEUS]

I'm running Royal Purple in there too - check the manual for rec. weights and amounts.

[nfpgasmask]

I'm running Royal Purple in there too - check the manual for rec. weights and amounts.

Yeah, I printed the whole thing out last month, I might as well use it, eh? So RP diff fluid in the front and rear, and what about your LSD fluid? What did you put in? Are they easy to drain and fill? Do you need to pump it in or syphon it in like the tranny?

Bart

[ZEUS]

Everybody keeps forgetting I have an open rear diff - no LSD. But to my understanding, Royal Purple has qualities in it comparable to an LSD additive already. Check it out. The front is easy to drain and fill - the rear I think is easy to drain but a little more challenging to fill. The front is just a bolt that is removed - it is the bolt at the very bottom of the 3rd member. It acts as a bolt and a plug. Once fliud stops coming out, put the bolt back in and fill er up until fluid starts coming out of the fill hole then plug it again. I think we had to pump fluid into the rear diff but it has been over a year and a half ago, so I forget.

[nfpgasmask]

Everybody keeps forgetting I have an open rear diff - no LSD. But to my understanding, Royal Purple has qualities in it comparable to an LSD additive already. Check it out. The front is easy to drain and fill - the rear I think is easy to drain but a little more challenging to fill. The front is just a bolt that is removed - it is the bolt at the very bottom of the 3rd member. It acts as a bolt and a plug. Once fliud stops coming out, put the bolt back in and fill er up until fluid starts coming out of the fill hole then plug it again. I think we had to pump fluid into the rear diff but it has been over a year and a half ago, so I forget.

So there is a drain and fill plug, just like everywhere else. I bet the syphon method will work good.

Hopefully some others will chime in with what fluids they are running in their diffs. Thanks, Justin.

Bart

[JHarris1385]

I forgot the brand but I used syn with lsd in the back. Better to be over than under on your lsd. I forget the amounts and numbers but I swear I have a thread on this somewhere. MAKE SURE to be on a level ground. I did not have to use any funnels or syphons at all. I just cut the tip of the bottle to an angle.

[Joe Isuzu]

I did it recently, I'm probably the only person that didn't go synthetic but I read the bottle and made certain it had all the necessary acronyms other threads said we needed
also, doing this was FAR easier than the tranny job, nothing to remove other than the drain and refill bolts, probably the hardest thing was to find the drain tube for the front axle
and the bottles have nice little tips on them, it wasn't as easy as simply squeezing in the fluid, but it was very easy to squeeze the fluid into a plastic tube and put the tube in the fill hole
going by memory, it should be like 2 hours tops for both, the more times you do it, the quicker it will be

[kodiak]

I did it recently, I'm probably the only person that didn't go synthetic but I read the bottle and made certain it had all the necessary acronyms other threads said we needed
also, doing this was FAR easier than the tranny job, nothing to remove other than the drain and refill bolts, probably the hardest thing was to find the drain tube for the front axle
and the bottles have nice little tips on them, it wasn't as easy as simply squeezing in the fluid, but it was very easy to squeeze the fluid into a plastic tube and put the tube in the fill hole
going by memory, it should be like 2 hours tops for both, the more times you do it, the quicker it will be

Thanks for the info, It sound like a painless process and besides I like working on my baby.