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I use a 1700 Princess aircleaner on my HIF44. No problems with breathing at all. Yes I know they can be difficult to find. Have seen some on ebay.

OH WELL THAT WAS SHORT LIVED:

I think my Moggie hates me

Cooked my diff on the way home from Nottingham last night, started whining 20m from home - nursed it back but got so hot you could smell it from 6 feet off, too hot to touch!!!

Not sure what level bung it should have but mine has a plain hole with a rubber grommet? which was obviously perished?

Drained what was left in it (about 200ml max!) and filled it up - not surprisingly she whines quite well over fifty

LIVING THE DREAM

I suppose I better start looking for 4.22 diffs / axles on Fleaby and reading up on rebuild: JOY

bigginger wrote:If you find another diff, why do you need to read up on rebuilding one?

Just because my brain is kaput, it will nag me to distraction not fully rebuilding the whole thing, then waiting for a bearing to fail etc and then having to do the whole in out thing all over again (doing bits more than once is my biggest pet hate in the world ever!!!!!).

Aha - so you'd rebuild any diff that you got?

bigginger wrote:Aha - so you'd rebuild any diff that you got?

Oh yeah absolutely, new bearings etc - while its out is the best time to do it.

"If a jobs worth doing, it worth doing right - if it aint worth doing right, is it worth doing at all?"

Not that I won't re-use or re-con parts, I couldn't bring myself to get a second hand diff (or any other part) and just drop it in - it would nag at me not knowing the actual condition of it.

I 'spect you make the rods for your own back too ;)
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Sometimes , but there again its always "fun" to sort one problem just to find 3 more lurking in the same area.

Not sure what level bung it should have but mine has a plain hole with a rubber grommet? which was obviously perished?

The filler/level is a screw-in steel plug, either in the diff nose for earlier cars (up to around the 1098 engine), or in the back of the axle housing on later cars.

Do you have a picture of yours?

I wouldn't bother 'rebuilding' a diff - plenty of good 4.22 out there! Just not economic - and frankly the bearings 'never' wear out - unless some numpty runs the diff with no oil!
Can you say what needle wasfitted to the carb in the dyno check ? Or did they reprofile the original needle ?

IslipMinor wrote:

Not sure what level bung it should have but mine has a plain hole with a rubber grommet? which was obviously perished?

The filler/level is a screw-in steel plug, either in the diff nose for earlier cars (up to around the 1098 engine), or in the back of the axle housing on later cars.

Do you have a picture of yours?

This is the rubber grommet that is the current "bung"



One side:



The other side:



Tis the end of the world it tell thee!

bmcecosse wrote:I wouldn't bother 'rebuilding' a diff - plenty of good 4.22 out there! Just not economic - and frankly the bearings 'never' wear out - unless some numpty runs the diff with no oil!
Can you say what needle wasfitted to the carb in the dyno check ? Or did they reprofile the original needle ?

Thats good to know, no harm in checking though

The invoice states carb needle BBW?

Ben M

Thanks for the needle note - will check it out.
Looking at your pics - these (yellow) tele dampers are so heavily angled they must be almost useless! Tele dampers should be as near vertical as possible.

If you take the bung out, is there a threaded ring welded into the hole? I wonder if someone has just drilled a level hole in an early axle casing when they fitted a later diff.

Seems likely Alex - and did they drill it in the correct place ?? Nothing wrong with the 'bung' idea - as long as it doesn't fall out.

Here's a less than brilliant shot of a late axle casing:

That looks like the most likely chain of events here, now I know I can weld in a lambda boss from work and plug it with a propper bung.

Looking at the two pics placement seems about right

Sthoopur, now all I have to do is pull my finger our and "doit"