Hey Guys, I need a little help. This last weekend I offroaded my truck pretty hard, and was wondering what maintenance I should follow up with. Currently I am inbetween any type of servi e or maintenance according to the schedules provided with the truck, but it is almost time to change the diff fluid. Should I go ahead and change the fluid now?... what else should I do??

thanks in advance!!

Now to the good stuff...
My two brothers and their wifes all went camping over the weekend in the hills of southern MO. It was great, I towed all of our fourwheelers there and we rode them most of the time, but we rode 6 deep in big burly a couple of times and hit the trails. This truck is so much more capable than I ever imagined, it keep me surprised time after time. We navigated through some pretty technical trails and hills (up and down hill), my brother acted as a spoter a couple of times. What I am really worried about is all of the water crossings that I did. One of the water crossings was just over the the body line running down the side of the truck (just slightly taller than my 37" tires)!! It was rediculous, exhaust pipe was all under water and stuff just gurggling away, and everyone watching was like "you can do it!!". I am sure there was pictures taken but unfortunatley none of my group got pics of the crazy water crossings because they were in the truck with me and we weren't gonna go back across to pick them up . I did get some pics and am working on getting them up right now.

later dudes!

 

Sounds like fun. I bet it wouldn't hurt to change the diff fluid since you had them completely submerged.

 

Grease evrything that can be greased, make sure you put enough in to push a little of the old out.

 

Picture I took about 3 weeks ago next to my brother-n-law's chevy 1500 with the same tires as mine and a fabtech 6" and 3" body lift. He didn't go with us, but I just found the picture and thought I'd post it...

This is bringing my new fourwheeler home, that I bought at the motorcycle shop, brand new 07 honda foreman 500 4x4 ES....

This is where we camped...

These small falls were less than 50 feet from our tents, so you could just listen to them all night...

Lining up for a poker run...

emerging from the brush...

the start of an unsuccessful run by my older brother...

passing my brother, just floating along churning the water...



Did you notice anything Mayfair??

 

Cool.. Maybe I should change my diff fluid as well, seeing that I had mine completely submerged a couple weeks ago.

 

your diffs are fully sealed except for a breather, your front diffs breather goes up into your engine bay so that should be fine. I don't know where your rear diffs breather ends up. You can buy a nice relocator and run it higher into the bed (they evn have nice filters for them). I go through water more often than prolly anyone on this site and I'm not talking about the guys that go on these closed courses, where I live we have flash floods quite often and few roads to choose from so its either stay home or risk getting swept away in a fast current. I'll never take my dogs with me when its flooding. But anyways when I first bought my tuck I would change the diffs after a few high water crossings but never saw any water so I said F it and bought amsoil and havent changed it yet.

They sell clear rear diff covers, would help to see if theres water in it.

 

The pics where the atv's are crossing is one of the many that my truck was drove through.

While I was doing the lift I noticed the front diff breather and as longs as the rear breather is at least as high as the bottom of the bed I'm prolly ok, but I still didn't know if the water could get through the axle bearings??.. the current was pretty swift in a few of the crossings.

 

Awesome pictures....looks like fun. How do you like the new 4 wheeler?

 

The new four wheeler is great so far.... I only flooded it out 3 times in the streams,durings its first 8 hrs ofrunning life .

 

The rear axle breather is mounted is mounted to the bottom of the bed underneath. The front breather is mounted to the driver side shock tower.