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need to replace tha rear main seal in tha gearbox and both the bearings and seals in the rear axle of me 92 spua widetrack zook. quoted $1250.. thought instead of fixing y not upgrade to hilux running gear or patrol as tha ol' zook is an ongoing project and i wanna later in tha year do a spoa & run bigger tyres (35's hopefully).
question being lux vs patrol.. readin thru tha 'sierra bible' and comments posted and from wat little i know (mechanically challenged!!) seem ta b moved towards tha mq patrol gear as its a lot more stronger as sum have mentioned here.
tha big question bein - what exactly do i need as far as the mq gear is concerned to do a full changeover from tha current stock zook setup and how much work is involved? how much $$ am i lookin at avn ta spend??

nfzook wrote:need to replace tha rear main seal in tha gearbox and both the bearings and seals in the rear axle of me 92 spua widetrack zook. quoted $1250..

Dam boy, Pitty your not closer, id do it for half that and be happy as larry.

I just did the same to my zook

- $49 each side for bearings and seal
- $100 to get shop to push bearings off and press new ones on, I pulled the axles out and took them down to the shop
- $70 for new rear bush and seal for K50 GBox and they fitted them, I took rear housing off and jack shaft gave it to them.

all up $268

But I too have a set of MQ diffs sitting in the shed, just need some high steer to over spring them.......big bucks to buy new it will cost a lot more than the diff cost.

mq diffs are a shite load stronger than lux diffs, mq running gear is the same as from 4 tonne dyna trucks...

Lux diffs will be plenty strong for what you want and come SOA as standard. MQ diffs are very strong but under a car as light as a zook you will have trouble breaking either.

advantage MQ diffs have are that they have an offset pumpkin which lines up nicer with the drivers side tail shaft that zooks run.
Check out sierrajim's zook buildup as he is/was running MQ diffs SPUA and had them working very well.

The advantage lux diffs have is the amount of aftermerket shit you can buy for them. Chromo CVs and axles would be nigh on unbreakable if you are running anything under 37s.

Personally Im going bundera rear (offset pumpkin) and lux front coiled and linked.