Building The Perfect Diff

December 9, 2009

Filed under: Tricks and Tips — Team Durango UK @ 9:10 am

Keeping your diff leak free will keep the amount of track-side maintenance down on your Durango DEX410. Take your time to build your diffs well and they will stay leak free until you need to change / refresh your diff fluid. Here we use Green slime as our ‘Grease’ but any PTFE based grease will keep your seals performing at their best

The Tools for the job

Smear grease into the recess for the 'X' Ring

Insert 'X' Ring into recess

Insert Diff Outdrive

Fit retaining washer

Fit E Clip

Fit Gear

Repeat the above steps for the ‘Plastic’ side of the diff

Fill Differential with silicone fluid to here

Assemble both halves and fit screws

Comments (3)

3 Comments »

The odd 1.3mm driver required to assemble these diffs is a problem to find. There are other screws in the kit that use 1.5. It would be great if the screws were changed to use a more standard and easy to buy 1.5mm driver. I have to special order the driver to get one because no store has it locally.

Comment by Chris — March 2, 2010 @ 12:58 am
Simple really. Seems Europeans are way too fond of the metric system (it is nice) but the 1.3mm wrench is just a standard 0.050″ (inch) allen key. Duh!?lol

Comment by John St. Amant — April 20, 2010 @ 12:15 pm
The diff outdrives did NOT fit into the side gears. Even taping them with a hammer did not work. I had to take a file and sand down each of the six side of the outdrive untill they would fit. Theres a bit of extra work involved but the car is a very tight fit. Thats much better then being too sloopy!

Comment by Gallimods — July 24, 2010 @ 4:59 pm