rear differential

[RCAPathfinder]

Hey does anyone know of a video that explains how to disassemble the rear differential of a R51? Thanks

[NmexMAX]

Are you gutting it, ring gear, bearings, etc? Or just swapping diffs? The former is a lot more involved than the latter. But, since all diffs are fairly the same design, any diff rebuild/gear swap YT vid should be a good starting point. The guys over on the older Z forums (Z32, etc) share the same diffs as ours (V6 & V8) and they've done a lot of research/gutting/re-gearing, etc. Check HybridZ Forum.

[RCAPathfinder]

Thanks. I'm changing out the spider gears only. But you have to take everything apart just to do that. What a pain in the a$$

[NmexMAX]

Yours get chewed up?

[RCAPathfinder]

Did you take it apart yourself? If you did how did you? I haven't done mine yet. Could use some how to info. Thx

[NmexMAX]

No I think mine is ok. I stole the pic from a thread on here.

http://www.thenissanpath.com/viewtopic. ... highlight=

[RCAPathfinder]

that thread doesnt really help me. I need to know how to get the stub axles out to get the carrier out. there are no videos on youtube showing a irs rear did.... ugh

[RCAPathfinder]

Only one spyder gear got chewed up but since the entire carrier has to come out I am replacing all of them.

[RCAPathfinder]

[NmexMAX]

This is informative, not sure if it will help you though.


http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/49194-d ... iff-mount/

[RCAPathfinder]

This might help a little. Thx

[disallow]

was it a specific event that caused your spider gear to fail? Nasty... makes me want to go change my diff fluid.

[RCAPathfinder]

I have no idea. There were no signs of slippage or noise. All I did was change fluid and found eight chips of the spider gears. It drive absolutely fine.

[NmexMAX]

Might as well upgrade to the R230. I got mine fairly cheap used with 30k miles.

Externally it looks better than the one it replaced and has been fine since last February.

If you've got 3.36's, you'll need a unit from the Armada with the tow package, but all you need to do is change the ABS sensors from your current unit to the new unit.