Do you have a LSD or the reg. diff.? Along that line, I have a question. I
was off road the other day, ('99 Dak. 2wd 318 3.55LSD) and when trying to go
up a muddy hill with the pass. side rear tire in mud and the drvr. side on
sollid ground and I could hear a loud clicking type sound that sounded like
the LSD trying to kick in. Well, here is the situation, now when I do burn
out or spin out, I only see the drvrs side wheel leave tracks and not the
pass. side. Here is the question, If the diff. broke or something, would I
know it, or would it just act like an open diff.? Thanks.
AR
Chris Ryan wrote:
> When I changed my rear diff fluid the other day I found what looked like
>
> a piece of a gear tooth, about an inch long. Other than that it was
> clean, no grit in there or the old lube, the lube was actually pretty
> clean, a medium amber color. This morning I took the truck in to flash
> the new PCM and do the rear axle vent tube re-route. I showed the piece
> to the service manager and he in turn called over a tech that thought it
>
> was a piece of tooth that split off rather than wore or broke, he
> thought this was do to insufficient hardening of the metal when it was
> made. He said the gear should be replaced and since it's still under
> warrantee it shouldn't be a problem, so I scheduled the work for Friday
> and re-scheduled the other stuff for then too. I'm just worried that
> when they get it up on the lift and see the Rancho kit they're gonna say
>
> no warrantee deal, neither of them actually looked at the truck at the
> time. It's pretty obvious it's not an excessive wear issue, all the
> other teeth were fine, and the fluid was so clean. There's never been
> any irregular noise or vibration back there, always has been and still
> is very smooth, even smoother now with synthetic fluid and the new PCM.
> So hopefully they'll be cool about it, I'm not going to mention anything
>
> and just maybe they won't either.
>
> Chris
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