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Apparently upon bedding in a new mechanical diff you can either do figure 8's for 20 minutes

or

Have the diff specialist coat the disassembled plates with friction modifyer, then just drive off.

Still recommend changing oil after bed in.

What's the best way to go ?

Cheers

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Apparently upon bedding in a new mechanical diff you can either do figure 8's for 20 minutes

or

Have the diff specialist coat the disassembled plates with friction modifyer, then just drive off.

Still recommend changing oil after bed in.

What's the best way to go ?

Cheers

Do what the diff manufacturer suggests.

As above.

Some diffs, like my Tomei (which I think is a re-brand of the KAZZ) suggest 20min of figure eights putting in the clutch before you turn in for the 180 degree turn at the top and bottom of the figure "8"

kaaz reccomend figure 8's for 20 min's in first gear (clutch in before turn, clutch out after turn)

nismo actually recommend going for a drive in the hills lol...

i did the figure 8's for 30 mins just to be sure, then dumped the oil...

i had a mechanical diff put into a previous car i had, i never did any of this i just didnt do burnouts and i changed the oil after like 1000kms, and that diff worked fine.... what a waste of fuel doing figure eights lol... a good mountain drive fair enough.

$2000 diff...

$5 fuel...

somehow i think its a worthwhile expense

Certainly is.

Anyway, I'll be having Award do the install for me.

For anyone whose been to them...

Where the hell in Seven Hills can you do the break in without getting arrested ?

lol i was reading this and thought people were taking the piss. As conan asked where are you meant to do this bedding in unless you time your diff install with a skidpan day

It has nothing to do with skidding the car.

Figure 8's can be done in as little as 200m2 so go to a shopping centre carpark on a Sunday evening. It doesn't require much thought.

It has nothing to do with skidding the car.

Figure 8's can be done in as little as 200m2 so go to a shopping centre carpark on a Sunday evening. It doesn't require much thought.

yeah ok.

But my intentions are:

Have award change the diff,

Hopefully return to their workshop around 3pm ,

do the break in somewhere,

return to them immediately to change the oil,

then go home.

I'm a fair way from Seven Hills.

:P

It has nothing to do with skidding the car.

Figure 8's can be done in as little as 200m2 so go to a shopping centre carpark on a Sunday evening. It doesn't require much thought.

oh my bad way i was reading it was your meant to be sliding the car whilst doing the figure 8's :) man im a retard haha

diffsonline.com recommend going no faster than 85 kph for 1200 miles !

That's going to be one boring drive.

Yep, I usually tell people no hard accelerating and nothing over 80km/h for the first 1000km to bed in the bearings, seals and tolerances. Then once in a while you get a VU SS ute come back after 200km missing half the teeth off the crown and stupid/honest enough to leave bald 20" tyres on the rear end :)

nismo actually recommend going for a drive in the hills lol...

LOL, that's asking for trouble. "90 degree drift along the mountain pass is desirable."

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