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swynx
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- lewiston idaho
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supposed to make a snow wheeling trip tomorrow, so I was doing a pre trip check of everything, found a bad d35 seal. dirty diff fluid, pulled the diff, to find that 3 of the 4 springs on my aussie locker were broken. upon inspection I found that the guy who put the aussie in 5 years ago, put the pins where the springs go and vice versa. I went to the hardware store and got as close of a spring as I could and put it all together. upon trying to torque my drivers side spacer I found that the locker is slipping. in the past ive always just locked the hub and torqued the nuts, no issue.
my question, is this normal? as there is no torque applied and its unlocked? feel stupid for asking, but my aussie has always ran like a spool and ive never had it slip or make any noise before, and I think its because from day one the backwards orientation of the springs/pins causing the springs to have been broken at the first sign of use, and not forcing the locker into the unlocked state.
for what its worth, the drivers side will lock going forward, but not backwards, and the passenger side wont lock going forward or backward
my question, is this normal? as there is no torque applied and its unlocked? feel stupid for asking, but my aussie has always ran like a spool and ive never had it slip or make any noise before, and I think its because from day one the backwards orientation of the springs/pins causing the springs to have been broken at the first sign of use, and not forcing the locker into the unlocked state.
for what its worth, the drivers side will lock going forward, but not backwards, and the passenger side wont lock going forward or backward
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