 today we're going to be doing a couple fixes there is no noticeable oil leak yet so perhaps after a drive to Tucson and then back here or back somewhere we'll find it like I said yesterday earlier in the video this is gonna be installed this is really easy you just bolt it here bolt that there it gets it in the front this is for the swing arm bump let me just show you guys if you don't know what a steering stabilizer that right there is a steering stabilizer today we're gonna be working in the back on the differential oil I got a gasket I also have like a squeezy gasket and I have new gear oil it's semi-synthetic it's different for all vehicles just got some of this Lucas stuff right here not sure when the last time it was replaced I want to make sure Dan is in tip-top shape all right so this this is the rear differential or axle or gear lubricant there's a bunch of crud right there you said this thing came out of the rust belt that's not bad yeah well it only had a hundred thousand miles so wasn't so bad huh for Pennsylvania and not bad huh so Badge got any tips for taking off the differential yeah so you got to keep a bolt in the last minute and then just break the bottom loose and you'll see when I take it off we'll just take it off a little bit at a time yeah it's gonna make a mess you just got to minimize your mess is all you have to do you just take it a little bit right take this out by the thread this has got that silicone on it so it's not gonna fall off like a reusable gasket you take the bolt so it'll just fall out this one you won't because it's got that real good Ford stuff on it yep better remember that the oil levels up to here right yeah so from there down is all oil yep so you got to know you got that much oil then you just pry it out real gently right yeah you got like I think it holds like three or four liters right yeah a couple cores three or four quarts almost almost a gallon I think and then just see you left the two bolts in there yeah she don't have to worry about it won't you know yeah falling off yet and you just let it drain slowly and then after you get it down a little bit where you got your bolts you stick the screwdriver in there and then push the top down right oh nice yeah and it just drains it a bit more right it looks pretty it looks like maple syrup get the pancakes see this tag up here yeah if you pull that tag off there oh yeah that tag got all the information you need off for that differential and you take that tag in and it'll tell them everything they want to know believe it or not everybody picks on Ford but that gray silicone that Ford uses that stuff is is really good that's really good stuff so now what we have to do is take a razor blade and clean and clean that right up yep because if you leave that on there the chances are it might leak just doesn't have a gasket on it just uses a gray silicone uh-huh that that gray silicone that Ford uses is unbelievable all right I think Permatex has got a product like it now but not that's Ford stuff international uses it so I got the Permatex yeah it's just killer these are the two we use is just a razor blade like this and this one now when you're using this be very careful because it catches on the metal and then it'll go and if this slips off it'll cut you bad like it leaves a nasty nasty mark but I use this on the close areas but I use this one most of the time because you can control it it's really flexible and you lock it in and it'll just take that stuff like oh wow it just takes it off clean but you got to just just I can't even emphasize how much it's important to keep your fingers away from it yeah because it'll uh because the thing with the run to work with the razor blade you always put gloves on or something because it'll cut the glove before your finger believe it or not well but just be so careful because you don't really need not to see it if you run the razor blade flat on the edge because it's cut in such a way you just run that along there it'll clean it off spotless for you clean enough that you can put it back on you don't have to get it spotless you just got to get it flat and you just run that around there and it comes off pretty clean this one here sometimes will work a little better to get it flat because you got to get all that silicone off the thing off around the bolts because you got to get the bolts back in there but don't worry about getting silicone on the bolts don't fill the bolt holes though because then hydraulics and it might I'd never seen it but it might crack the housing or it'll stop the bolt from going in and then it won't go tight but that's pretty far-fetched but it's possibilities are there so yeah that's all you do is that there just scrape around there now you got a one of the big thing you got to remember is a brake line you got a brake line holder up there you got to make sure you anchor that brake line because the vibration going down the road the brake line will probably breaks you got to make sure you put that holder back on and that goes on the top bolt you just clean that up you get the brake cleaning little sprayer and should be good that way it was not bad really but see where the silicone will curl on the inside yeah and it'll give you an extra bit of a seal there where the gasket will only go to there right so that's why the silicone and that's that gray stuff that Ford uses it's unbelievable like international Ford it's really good stuff like it's hard to get a leak with that but just make sure you get all the old stuff off because soon as it's used run so it won't reseal this is I'm gonna take a chance and think this was synthetic oil it looked pretty good like it's hard to tell it's synthetic but sometimes when you go from standard gear oil to synthetic you might get a wheel seal leak you might it's I know back in the 90s that used to do it all the time but now the seals are changing a lot of them come from the factory with synthetic so it's not much of a big deal but there's always that possibility that a seal will leak right that's just water and contaminants in the oil right so you want to get that out because the oil doesn't break down it's all the stuff they put in it right so this is where you're getting at this just the oil it's not broke down it's just that it leaves that slime on there right so that's where you're cleaning up that's where your after is to get rid of that stuff clean it you know it doesn't have spotless spotless but it's got a pretty clean it's not like a dentist's office or nothing but here is your killer if there's chunks on there you got big issues that's more like they call it dust right it's just dust that's a magnet in there and it's just dust so that's not a big deal now if you got chunks on there you got to find it where the chunks come from because that's could be a gear or something that's a piece that's a piece of the differential breaking off yeah but this is just dust they call it dust it's not to worry about but the chunks you have to worry about the chunks you don't have to worry you got to find it where they came from you might not worry after you find it but you have to find it where they came from and that's why you got to clean this up and clean the differential up is because if some guy sees it somebody changed the gear well they'll think they'll assume that it's all clean right well if you leave dirt in there it could take the differential over right so it's like a catch-22 thing but you just clean it up that's good that's clean as you're gonna get it right so this is a stuff I snagged at the auto parts store it's a gasket maker I also have a reusable gasket or like a hard gasket but it looks like we'll probably just use this break clean takes all the oil from off right you notice there'd be no oil left on there at all yeah just clean that up like so now see we sprayed it down and you notice the black stuff on the cover well the black stuff's on the diff too but see now we got it all gone it's all gone now there's none on it right and all the oils out so you know sometimes if you want to just change the oil some got a differential plug underneath not very many but they do you can drain the oil out of it some people suck it out but then the only problem with that is you don't see inside it so you don't really know what's inside there right right so that's why taking the cover off is kind of handy well being a mechanic you're gonna take the cover off anyway because you want to see what's in there right like just things like brand new so it's at least now you know when you go down the road jocks that you're differentials in good shape so so then what you do is you put a gob in here on the inside of the holes right you're gonna say what how you do that for a while if you put on the inside of the holes the gear or the it'll go to the inside of the differential you put on the outside of the holes it'll go on the outside of the differential so that's we want that little thing right you just put a couple sixteenth or so around there and then when you put it in it'll squash because it'll go metal to metal right and then you just make sure that you get in between the holes don't put it on the holes because remember I told you about the bolts in the silicone because this stuff you can't press us a hydraulic right it'll hydraulic on you see you can't compress the solids so that's why you don't put it in the holes now the problem is it's trying to get it in there looking like that we've got a long way to go yeah but then anyway what you do is you put it up on the differential and then you just put a couple bolts in you put them all the bolts in before you tighten in you don't tighten any of the bolts because if you do what happens is it'll cock on you or get crooked or something and you won't be able to get the bolt in and you have to take them all in done and play with it I don't know what the hell I show all this tricks to you you put the cover on the bar and just use it for a guide right and then you grab it and put it now just remember when it goes up against it stays you don't take it out you put it up against the differential wiggle it around a bit and then it stays you never take it off again unless you have a problem but if you don't have a problem don't take it off because if you pull it you might get an air pocket in it and then it could leak but chances are slim to none on that one but yeah make sure you start all the holes bolts first because you know some of them some of the covers they only give you a certain amount of wiggle room right if you notice if he's that cheap silicone like we do it'll hold it up there for you just like a spare set of hands you see nice cool and it's cool and then you ask the customer do you want that tag or do you want to put it back yes put the tag back on okay see but if you just put it up there you can move it around you can do all kinds of crazy stuff with it but if you tighten the bolts up you can't move it around right yeah because right now that's sealed you could virtually let that dry and drive away and then things would stay on there because that's how good that stuff is but don't try that just I'm just saying this has got all the information for that rear end because you remember he said he had a gasket well the guy had given the wrong guy so if he had that tag you probably would have got the right one but they probably thought it was a smaller one but it's a this is a bus has got a little heavier chassis on it but like everybody says all the one tons got the same differential in it was not true in the top you want it to seal but you don't have to really worry that much about it oh that's right cuz seal right cuz that oil never goes up that high it's not gonna go up there it splashes around like if you had no seal in no gasket in there you know real quick because it'll that gear will go everywhere and don't forget about your brake line you got to get that clip on that brake line you have to because that brake line will vibrate and break yeah the big thing is make sure you try to keep the silicone away from the holes as much as you can because the chances are you'll get the bolts in there and they'll go tight but if you put it in and the bolt doesn't go tighter it goes tight and there's still a gap then you have to take it out dig the silicone out of it oh boy that's not too bad but it's not no fun either now if you've got a limited slip or pause the unit you have to check and make sure if you can get away with ordinary gear oil or you have to put an additive in it most the GM's you have to put an additive in it for this limited slip and if you put gear oil in it won't work you'll just it'll rocket great news so you have to just make sure if you got a limited or a pause unit make sure you get the right oil great news I got stuff that doesn't require yeah so any stuff they're going that way now yeah yeah a lot of the Lucas stuff you don't have to worry about it it'll go both ways the more they warm up and heat up and cool off you get moisture in it right every time because you got a breather on them right yeah they get and like even my dodge it's only a 12 and when I did it I only had it for a year or something and I took it out and it was right milky Wow so yeah it doesn't even like it's not four-wheel drive how did the moisture get in there so it probably because you're towing huh it heats up so this is before I started towing with it so yeah you just let caught me off guard to make I never suspected that now this plug does not hold the differential in or any of the gearing so you don't have to tighten it up a ton all you want to do is get it set at seal so you don't need it that tight that's why I tell everybody use a 3-inch ratchet because you can't get it that tight okay now and see that's that plug we had right oh yeah okay now this isn't an advertisement for Morgan Lucas by any means but this is how you put the gear well in you how you use Lucas oil products because the jug will collapse down I'll show you what it does it makes it so handy now you got it in you have to cut that off you're only gonna get a little like half this bottle or a little more than that in it so you just keep adding it to the bottles right so what you do is you put it in the thing and just squeeze it in and these bottles are made to collapse only Lucas bottles do it and you just squeeze that bottle right in there like so okay now we're be very little in that bottle but only the Lucas bottles do it high-five thanks for help me with the differential so we are just under the bus a second ago where do you think the oil's coming from loose oil pan man who would have thought that not me great news we did find the culprit yeah what do you say is that a common common find is it but the problem is you just take the bolt and they're very small bolts don't get too aggressive and just tighten it up and the chances are it'll quit it's a crazy thing but it will quit leaking huh and if it doesn't quit then you have to pull the oil pan but it's you well pan off the rear seal interesting well that's great news everybody no serious problem for Danny adventure bus it's a very small minor one all right now I'm gonna I'm gonna do this one all my own here cuz I feel like that's pretty easy to tackle and then work on that thing too all right guys we got the new steering stabilizer and by the way if you got some hard to remove bolts a torch is your best friend well this is what tonight's sunset looks like another good one it's interesting how the camera picks up stuff this direction but not that direction because of the light anyways wow it was a long day kind of a hot day so when it's long and hot let's say they do laundry today too yeah yeah so a little tired need to definitely put some proper clothes on probably in the shower camping setup is already ready for me nothing tonight I'm just gonna do a little turkey mixed frozen vegetables and curry powder little kick so oh and also I guess me coming here was kind of a cliffhanger cuz I guess I didn't reveal the fact that I made it so I leave you guys hanging I was on the phone with Claire bear and I was trying to film that whole part and then showing up and plus it was a really long day and I was tired so here's a spoiler alert for you guys I'm a human anyways I'm gonna call it a day today day four today thanks so much for watching I'll see you on tomorrow's upload