Help: Ring & Pinion

I would have thought ,if you can budget for it, replacing the bits you feel may be suspect now, especially if you are going down the route of lockers etc. You'd be pretty pissed to find yourself on your knees in mud or somewhere rocky later on :)

You could buy my RAV4 instead....

No thanks.

FWIW, I would replace both the ring and pinion, maybe even just find a good second hand diff?? If you leave something in there that isn't perfect, you just know it'll come back and bite you - when you least expect or need it. Wayne, O.T., but ever tried doing a clutch on a rav? Front suspension remove, steering rack remove, drop engine and box and split on the deck! Not a nice job. Badger.

Printed out and left on pillow. Hmm, might leave it for breakfast instead...

did one on a diesel and a petrol rav4 it was a swine but I left the engine in and just took the box out.

How did you do the petrol one? My mate asked me to give him a hand in his garage, and the gearbox just physically couldn't be separated and removed - there just wasn't anywhere near enough clearance, hence the dropping of the crossmember/suspension etc after a phone call to a friend of his that had previously worked for toymotor. I s'pose there could be differences for different petrol engines, are there many in the range? This one was a 4-cyl. Badger.

it was last year so memory a bit rusty. took subframe off with bottom arms, driveshafts out left everything else in car IIRC I used a cradle to hold the engine in place while I undid all the bolts holding the box to the engine. I seem to remember the diesel being easier than the petrol. I think the diesel was a 02 plate.

The one I helped with was an older model, so I suppose they might have re-engineered maybe the shaping of the inner wing slightly to allow the box to come off in situ? The toymota man we spoke to said you could also pull it out the top, but you had to take just about all the engine ancilliaries off to do so! Must admit, if I had the driveshafts and subframe/arms off, I'd just have dropped the whole thing out myself rather than work in the confines of the engine bay to split the box off. Methinks I'll be sticking to Landrover products given choice! Badger.