Saturday, Jan 08, 2005 at 22:29
Jeff,
Have only seen it in 2 vehicles, one on the station, and an opal miner's vehicle that becoming stationery, after crossing a creek, while the rain tumbled down in...November.
Both these were 75 series vehicles, one a 2H, and other an early or mid-90's 1HZ. Feel it may be a product of high K's, hard work, or perhaps that model. A vehicle caught in boggy conditions, needing much rocking and purging, forwards and back, would accelerate the problem. Also as mentioned
the nut can work loose, with wear, and needs to be re-tensioned to keep the 2 gears locked together on the spline.
Of the 2 gears in the t/case, only one wears the spline(correct me if I'm wrong), and a bush fix is to weld the 2 gears together. A bloke used to advertise a special one piece gear for this application, but haven't seen anything in mags for a year or 2.
Jeff, I'd be surprised if a
well maintained vehicle, doing mostly bitumen/touring work, would suffer this fate. But as mentioned by Peter below, the wear can be extreme, and there may be a zillion tojos running around, just waiting for someone to give them the BIG SQUIRT, and strip the top off the remaining spline.
Hooroo...
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