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During this years Morocco trip in a moment of lapsed concentration, I managed to nose dive the 80 into a fairly big ditch
In the photo it doesn't look like to much of a problem but, trust me, that's almost a 3 foot drop there and she was wedged on the front bumper, so I decided to reverse out.
All was going well until the front wheels got stuck on a rocky ridge. So I gunned the throttle in the hope that she would lift herself out. This just caused both rear wheels to dig in. But then I heard what I can only describe as a deep toned football rattle type noise coming from the drivers side (I think).
I thought I had fubbered some part of the transmission but, when we finally got her out the noise disappeared and was fine for days
A few days later I got her stuck again in some very sticky mud near the lake in the Ceder Forrest once again while wheel spinning this ratchety sounding noise returned
It has been raining since we got home so I haven't had chance to do any investigating.... any ideas what it might be? As my 80 is an import she only has a center diff lock + LSD rear.
In the photo it doesn't look like to much of a problem but, trust me, that's almost a 3 foot drop there and she was wedged on the front bumper, so I decided to reverse out.
All was going well until the front wheels got stuck on a rocky ridge. So I gunned the throttle in the hope that she would lift herself out. This just caused both rear wheels to dig in. But then I heard what I can only describe as a deep toned football rattle type noise coming from the drivers side (I think).
I thought I had fubbered some part of the transmission but, when we finally got her out the noise disappeared and was fine for days
A few days later I got her stuck again in some very sticky mud near the lake in the Ceder Forrest once again while wheel spinning this ratchety sounding noise returned
It has been raining since we got home so I haven't had chance to do any investigating.... any ideas what it might be? As my 80 is an import she only has a center diff lock + LSD rear.