how long has you e-series diff lasted...

[badefghia]

I was just wondering how long and how many kays peopels diffs have lasted and do you give it hell..I have a factory 3-45 lsd in my ghia v8 manual it has 185000 original kays and it has had a hard life but it still is pretty tight and has lsds fine...ITs done heaps of skids over its life and is still fine yet my mate has a 3-5 lsd in his ef xr6 which has done 130000 original kays and he babys it and the diff is stuffed..

[FairmontEL]

when i had my el i went through 3 diffs in as many months if you give them a hard time they fall apart in my experience... well they go fine just start to single spin

[70caprigt3k]

My diff is 220,000km's old, i've put it through hell with the car stock and i have gone even harder running considerably more power than stock and its still holding up well.

[badefghia]

MY difff has gone through hell including a 6 hours bunout sesion where i went through over seven sets of stockies and it still lsds fine...

[[Tonko]]

250,000k's and still tight as...
And the LSD centre out of an XD i had, (still a BW 25 spline diff) has been through 500,000+ k's and now resides in a VLT walky mockup
They are a good piece of gear...

[andrewts]

208,000, 3.08:1 single spinner, still works, babied it's whole life. In fact, everything works well, gearbox, engine, clutch fan...

[samftr]

354,000km, and if you look around on the forums here, you will see some of the stuff mine gets upto at the drags, skidpan, mud, driving in general, towing, etc
still good, its an open wheeler 3.08 tho.

[LTDHO]

I think needfordspeed has done 800,000 on his diff, or was ir Mr.Dose?

But it's a huge number anyway

[Sammy B]

275,XXX with the original 3:08:1 single spinner in, still goin strong! Sounds like I'm approaching warp speed in 1st tho lol

[mcflux]

lmao, an 800,000km diff! That's like Old Testament-spec

My diff in its former guise was a 3.27 LSD, I did 300,000kms in it before swapping the gears & LSD for a set of 4.11s, which have been on for 60,000kms now. Both incarnations show(ed) no signs of deterioration. The 4.11 LSD sounds like a spool in carparks, it groans & skips a little, as it's tighter than a 12yo

If I got another E-Series as a project though I'd chuck a lokka in it.

[oneredED]

Mine's done about 280,000km, but a year or two ago (so about 20,000km's) I put in a minispool, and even I'm surprised it hasn't snapped an axle yet. It feels fine though and is quiet as a mouse so I guess it'll be in there for quite a while longer yet.

[Hunter]

How often do you guys change diff oil? My EL's diff oil hasn't been changed as long as I've had it at least and its possible its hasn't been changed since 1996 .

[mcflux]

Had mine changed recently (I aim for ~50,000km intervals)

[Sundeep]

My EA diff has done 400,000km... I think that's one of the highest. It's screaming for retirement now though, as everyone who has been in it knows. Never been out of the car, one of the only things left to change.

Pretty sure Wayne is referring to Tiga_EL but his diff has been changed at least once or twice.

Sundeep

[CaRtZ]

i've given my single spinner an absolute sh*tfull for the last 10,000 or so. the car has 258xxx on it. when it single spins it whines and grinds but when it loads up both wheels it beautiful.

[gthofan]

the diff in my old ea lasted 380,000k's. Was still limited slipping like new, tight as, but the whining was killing my ears.

[EFFalcon]

240,000km LSD thats showing signs of wear... often spins 1 :P

[LTDHO]

Originally Posted by Mr. Dose

My EA diff has done 400,000km... I think that's one of the highest. It's screaming for retirement now though, as everyone who has been in it knows. Never been out of the car, one of the only things left to change.

Pretty sure Wayne is referring to Tiga_EL but his diff has been changed at least once or twice.

Sundeep

Woops, it was 400 not 800.....

My mistake

[Simmo]

Originally Posted by EFFalcon

240,000km LSD thats showing signs of wear... often spins 1 :P

same, owned the car from 174k to current at 230k. didnt really like spinning 2 on burnouts, 1 wheels most of the time. does 2 when you've got some load and angle going though.

[MADED-6]

mine was 220,000km old and on right turns it would single but stright line and left corners never singled on me and has no noises.
now i have a 3.7lsd and the ls is tight as but the gears have a chip in them so it makes a very strange noise on cruising.
cheers josh.

[frd_crzer]

the diff in my old ea lasted 380,000k's. Was still limited slipping like new, tight as, but the whining was killing my ears.

it was hurting my ears aswell when i went cruising in ur old EA scott.

[Dezza]

My 246,000km LSD is still pretty quiet, but it's now single spinning a fair bit.

[Rollin]

I've never busted an axle, crownwheel or pinion, but the pinion bearing in my XR6 got REALLY noisy towards the end, before I got another diff and put 3.9s in it.

I forgave it though, because I thrashed the hell out of it. LSD was ok for a while but then started to get a but unpredictable after a skidpan day at Gympie, when it was in my (then) girlfriends ED Fairmont.

Got a totally fresh diff built up with new 3.9 gears, new bearings, machined and shimmed LSD, cost me about $1100 or more I think. Took it to morgan park, it started to sound nasty, changed the oil then went out again a couple of months later, and changed the oil after that.

It was Fuct. Open wheeled pretty much all the time, apart from launching off the line going dead straight. Biggest waste of money evar.

I then got a 3.27:1 open diff from the trading post with unknown km on it, threw in a lokka and put it in the car. Then turbocharged the car

It did 20,000km in the XR with no problems, now it's in the ED and the pinion bearing is starting to get noisy in this one too. I think flat changing, and clutching it to initiate a drift may be the cause

Once I get new bearings put in it will be sweet again.

Who needs a 9 inch diff? Pfft.

[badefghia]

i hear that the b-series diffs are having a few problems some only doing 10-15000ks for the hidding my diff gets i have no complaints...

[Kenaz]

Originally Posted by badefghia

MY difff has gone through hell including a 6 hours bunout sesion where i went through over seven sets of stockies and it still lsds fine...

Someone remind me to never buy a car off this guy

Back on topic, I haven't had a diff problem with either of my two E-series cars.

[mcflux]

^^^ how the hell did he keep the car cool for that amount of time! My EB went from cool to red hot in a minute!

[DBourne]

Originally Posted by Simmo

same, owned the car from 174k to current at 230k. didnt really like spinning 2 on burnouts, 1 wheels most of the time. does 2 when you've got some load and angle going though.

sorry to be ignorant, but how can you tell if its only spinning 1?
can you tell in normal driving? or only when u boot it? if so what should i notice?

[Simmo]

it should be real easy to tell how many of your back wheels are spinning. if not, get some practice. during burnouts, if the car stays nice and straight and back doesnt make any sideways movement, its single spinning. if the back is kicking to one side or feels like youre on ice back there, its 2. as for drift its even easier, if its single spinning, you wont be able to pull off any drift lol. it'll be revving out and there will be tyre noise, but itll pretty much be driving/SSing through the corner by then, not drifting.

[Selwonk]

welded up centres(cig) are by far the best and cheapest cause when they bust you just buzz it up and off you go just like a newbie

[JD86]

mines done 426thousand lol, coped bit of a hiding, not too much though