About to put the hard earned on a LOKKA... any 'issues' people have had ?

[Rumcajs]

I don't know about Spartan but if you need to remove the centre pin to take spider gears out you have to drop crown wheel which means the diff centre must come out of the carrier.

Patrol diffs are not like HD truck ones where you can remove/halve the centre without touching the crown wheel.

Even though 4WD System is advertising this job doable in your back yard it ain't if you don't have required equipment. Also plenty of things can go wrong as you have to remove hubs, swivel joints and axles half shafts, the potentials for efups are everywhere not to mention the dodgy way they're advising to keep bearing settings unchanged.

For start crown wheel bolts are FT. You will not able to clamp it in the vice and use breaker bar to crack them off and do them up again . Pneumatic impact wrench (rattle gun) to get them off is advisable.

To tighten them up in the vice is not advised, normally a press is used to apply clamping force onto carrier and than tension wrench them up.

If you haven't done job like this before I suggest at best to remove the carrier yourself to save on cost and hand over to diff specialist/mechanic to do the rest, it is still big job enough. Plan ahead so while it is all apart, repack the hub bearings or change them, replace hub seals, and other additional maintenance while it is all in bits.

Regards