Sometimes it never ends! I spent the night mounting up some tires for the wifes van and I figured while I was at it I would see what the clicking noise I had heard while coasting was all about. Seems like the spider gears in the diff are actually going bad? When I spin the one rear tire by hand with it in park and the diff gears are turning it's making a grinding noise. The fluid has never been low and we don't make a habbit out of one wheel peeling in the snow so you would think them gears would have an easy life? Guess it's time to pull the cover and get into the stinky oil! My guess on the order of things. 1) pull cover and get stinky 2) make a list of bad parts 3) call and get parts prices 4) say thank you,hang up,choke 5) go get a junkyard rearend 6) pull cover on used unit and change oil 7) install and put all my newer brake parts on 8) give wife a brake bleeding refresher class! I know she means well but every time I ask her how long it has been doing something "bad" she says "for a while now but I didn't want to bother you."
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