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therelaxer previously said:
What do you do after the DIFF goes out. Do you trailer it out or do you drive out? Do you fix it on the trail?
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Depends on how bad it's busted. If you only lose a few teeth....you can usually drive out unless the trail is REALLY bad...in which case, the ring and pinion will be significantly weaker due to the missing teeth and will likely start to shear teeth that are next to the broken ones. It will likely get progressively worse as you continue loading the gears....so easy does it until you can get back to pavement (assuming the initial failure isn't catastophic).
If you do blow it so bad, you can't move it, take out the rear driveshaft and run it back to pavement in front wheel drive (assuming the trail isn't so bad that you have to have 4WD to get out). If front 2WD doesn't cut it.....you may have to leave it, get a built third and come back to it if another vehicle can't help you make it out without the rear having power.
HTH,
Sean
