ARB issues

CHOP SHOP · Aug 25, 2011

Stick a shaft in it and see if its a solid spool or if it is an open diff (turn one, the other turns the other way) or if either side spins free with nothing else locked or turning.

charliesnyder · Aug 25, 2011

Will do, I'll report back in a few minutes.

charliesnyder · Aug 25, 2011

CHOP SHOP said:
Stick a shaft in it and see if its a solid spool or if it is an open diff (turn one, the other turns the other way) or if either side spins free with nothing else locked or turning.

Well with the locker "locked" both shafts spin the same direction when I turn the input. With it open they spin opposite. So seems like the ARB is working.... I'm stumped. I just cleaned all the grease off the hub and didn't see anything out of the ordinary..

Mark m. · Aug 25, 2011

My compresser is running full time and blowing lots of air out the diff vent. I guess I need to take the diff out just not sure what i'm looking for.
Its a brand new arb with maybe 500 miles on it.

crash2 · Aug 25, 2011

Mark m. said:
My compresser is running full time and blowing lots of air out the diff vent. I guess I need to take the diff out just not sure what i'm looking for.
Its a brand new arb with maybe 500 miles on it.

Many reasons why its failed mark....

charliesnyder · Aug 25, 2011

I'd bet on what they thought mine might have been. Blown seals/o-ring..

CHOP SHOP · Aug 25, 2011

charliesnyder said:
Well with the locker "locked" both shafts spin the same direction when I turn the input. With it open they spin opposite. So seems like the ARB is working.... I'm stumped. I just cleaned all the grease off the hub and didn't see anything out of the ordinary..

99 percent of people that disassemble a toyota locking hub to clean it or install chromo hub gears dont get them back to together properly.

If the locker is spinning the shafts and the birf or shaft are not broke then its between the nub and rotor.

I would look to the hub next.

CHOP SHOP · Aug 25, 2011

Mark m. said:
My compresser is running full time and blowing lots of air out the diff vent. I guess I need to take the diff out just not sure what i'm looking for.
Its a brand new arb with maybe 500 miles on it.

Yours is somewhere inside.

Either the line or fitting is losing air to the inside of the housing or the seal/setup is the cause of failure.
Either way its a teardown to diagnose.

Charlies could have been diagnosed without pulling it out if he had read this early enough.

charliesnyder · Aug 25, 2011

Well I almost guarantee that I am part of that 99%! I'll have to take a look at the hubs. I did pull them off when I put the 5th stud on.

charliesnyder · Aug 25, 2011

I pulled the hub apart and everything seems to be right on. Functions how it should.

Free spins when unlocked and clicks in when locked..

Im starting to wonder if that hub wasn't locked in all the way. I checked and relocked the hub multiple times...

shrek1 · Aug 25, 2011

To much grease?

charliesnyder · Aug 25, 2011

Well one of two things was wrong. Either I'm an idiot and don't know how to lock hubs in or I had put the hubs together wrong.

I put everything back together and inspected everything while I had it apart. Everything looks good. Hubs were cleaned and reinstalled so that seems to have fixed the problems.

Thanks for all the help and input. Learned a lot about ARB's today!

44newman · Aug 30, 2011

Are the RD132 really that quiet?
The old 23's you can see the actual engagement through a hole. And definitely hear it.
So can you get enough moisture from a compressor into the ARB to do damage?
Rust it internally or anything.