The Nissan Path

Posted: **Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:49 am**

Hey does anyone know of a video that explains how to disassemble the rear differential of a R51? Thanks

Posted: **Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:32 am**

Are you gutting it, ring gear, bearings, etc? Or just swapping diffs? The former is a lot more involved than the latter. But, since all diffs are fairly the same design, any diff rebuild/gear swap YT vid should be a good starting point. The guys over on the older Z forums (Z32, etc) share the same diffs as ours (V6 & V8) and they've done a lot of research/gutting/re-gearing, etc. Check HybridZ Forum.

Posted: **Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:34 am**

Thanks. I'm changing out the spider gears only. But you have to take everything apart just to do that. What a pain in the a$$

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:34 am**

Yours get chewed up?

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 8:49 am**

Did you take it apart yourself? If you did how did you? I haven't done mine yet. Could use some how to info. Thx

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:48 am**

No I think mine is ok. I stole the pic from a thread on here.

http://www.thenissanpath.com/viewtopic. ... highlight=

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:31 am**

that thread doesnt really help me. I need to know how to get the stub axles out to get the carrier out. there are no videos on youtube showing a irs rear did.... ugh

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:32 am**

Only one spyder gear got chewed up but since the entire carrier has to come out I am replacing all of them.

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:39 am**

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:20 am**

This is informative, not sure if it will help you though.

http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/49194-d ... iff-mount/

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:51 am**

This might help a little. Thx

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 12:08 pm**

was it a specific event that caused your spider gear to fail? Nasty... makes me want to go change my diff fluid.

Posted: **Mon Jun 23, 2014 1:31 pm**

I have no idea. There were no signs of slippage or noise. All I did was change fluid and found eight chips of the spider gears. It drive absolutely fine.

Posted: **Tue Jun 24, 2014 8:27 am**

Might as well upgrade to the R230. I got mine fairly cheap used with 30k miles.

Externally it looks better than the one it replaced and has been fine since last February.

If you've got 3.36's, you'll need a unit from the Armada with the tow package, but all you need to do is change the ABS sensors from your current unit to the new unit.