Mate at work is a real 4x4 freak. He was a subaru man but went into a toyota twin cab 4x4 hi-lux, Goes away for days on his own, climbs mountains, outback, rivers creeks etc. Real Marlboro man. And he's a great bloke. Sits around the fire on his own with the harmonica..got the picture...
He does a gearbox oil change the other day and out with the oil came a chewed up circlip. What do you reckon he did. Yep. Shrugged his shoulders and threw it away. Can't be important, its pretty small.
Back into the wild he goes, 4 wheel driving in the bush, where he loves it.
He comes back to Toowoomba and was driving down the main street and clink clink, clunk clunk, thunk thunk. stop. The hilux finished the trip to his house on a tilt tray. Let the oil go and this time out came remains of gear tooth. Jeez I laughed when he told me at work. He taking tomorrow off to start removing the box. Been quoted about $1300 for an exchange with warranty.
Moral to the story:- Any foreign objects in your oils, especially circlips, well there in the box to hold something on.
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