Broken rear diff

Yeah it can be done in an emergency, but you should keep your speed down to a crawl not try to travel at hwy speeds. Depends whats broken but you will probably do more damage to a diff.

Yes certainly, but one would normally remove the remove the rear prop shaft .
Cheers Pete

Hi Jimmy

I once had an 80 series with Detroit lockers F&R, coming out of the bungles years ago, I snapped the studs that holds the axle to the hub.

What I did was this, I took the short axle and put that were the long axle should be, I then placed the long axle in the car.

With some rags and 100 mph tape I sealed the end of the broken hub, I then took the rear tail shaft off, this left me with a free floating rear diff, I then put it in low 4 and drove to the hwy.

Once at the hwy I put the car in high 4 and drove to Kununurra at 100 kph towing a trailer, no damage done, I was able to get a new hub at Kununurra and fix it before I drove home.

Jimmy

I had a landcruiser ute that had a habit of breaking the axle studs on a regular basis. I would just take out the offending axle and chuck it in the back - put it into 4x4 and keep going. If off road I would cover the open hub. Did not remove the tail shaft as the gear box would leak oil out the rear.

Made the steering pull a bit driving on the front diff. Had to do it a couple of times.
Kept the speed down and made sure it was fixed asap.

The old 1986 utes are fitted with the same diff in the front as is used in the rear. When they changed to the 80 series toyota put a smaller diff in the front.

Of course removing the axle only works with vehicles that have a full floating axle setup. Your Nissans, or suzuki jimnys and such have a different setup and the axle and bearings are together. In that situation if you damaged something i.e. smashed a gear in the diff - driving further would damage everything else as well. With those axle setups you can't just remove the axle or even remove the diff and keep driving.

David

Anyone who has owned an early model Landy would know the drill about driving home carefully on the front diff with the rear prop shaft removed.
2.25 litres of unbridalled horsepower was murder on rear axles.
Even a full time 4wd with centre diff locked could get you home using this method

ob