Jons Nightmare 6 Wheel Differential Unit

Dear God on a Bike🤬
On the 6th March this year Customer Jon turned up with his "Quite poorly" 6 wheel drive through Differential unit - and asked us if we could please save it .
He was here as we took it apart, he could see the issues, some obviously quite severe, but, as we later found out as we worked around saving and rebuilding it - it threw one major challenge / issue / both and problems / the lot - every time we went near it.
A HUGE amount of time and effort went it to getting it to work again, it was obvious in its past it had serious problems, and suffered serious bodges which we had to correct repair improvise and work through.
As a business this was not in anyway "Profitable".
But it was without a doubt massively rewarding real sense of achievement to have not just saved this unit but upgraded it when nobody else wanted to get involved.
Ok, .....yes, ........no.....we don't learn 🤦🤦

[@caveman230]

Again Nigel, what a pleasure to see you at work. brilliant bastard😂

[@mikeroz6549]

Nige, that was a very enjoyable watch. 👍

[@infernalGotYou]

You need more subscribers! Was nice to watch

[@mjallenuk]

When your job becomes an art form 😎👌

[@GiorgosConstantinu]

So much work, so much money spent on this thing and no airlockers on it in the end...so painful. What a shame from the clients side... "Ho! I don't need lockers!" Yea, nobody does until you get stuck when a tricky situation comes and create an emergency for yourself...

[@Leo-dk4we]

Yeah could've dropped an ATB in there for the same money as the 4-pin.

[@MegasquirtUK]

@@Leo-dk4wethat would be a very very bad idea

[@Leo-dk4we]

Ah, would that cause too much strain or shock loading on the whole assembly?

[@MegasquirtUK]

Absolutely - an ATB or locker would increase internal strain on the chain that drives the unit and also put massive internal loading on the pinion woodruff keys on drive gear - that’s why 6 wheel drive through and are open diffs - and all these units of various are actually quite delicate 😬😂

[@MegasquirtUK]

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