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Skinny: Well, if you've got an upgraded axle with 3.08 gears that'll drop right in, selling for a couple hundred $, available in madison, WI or Chicago, IL, or somewhere along I-90, this weekend. I'm all ears. Also, hindsight is 20/20. "should've taken it back to the original shop". Well...

Yeah... this is what's so infuriating... is the whole reason I bought the NOS rear axle assembly (had it shipped via freight) was because I figured that'd be the last time in my lifetime I'd have to bother with the stupid thing. New brakes, new axle, new everything. Should've installed it...

I don't suppose anybody in Madison WI has a spare rear axle? or knows a good place to take a differential to get fixed? I'm hoping it's something like a bearing... something cheap...

Well, I guess I got a year and 4 months out of it... The rear diff started whining maybe a month ago, and now it's a full-on howl. Taking it somewhere Thursday morning to have them check it out. :(

In other, possibly-related news, the truck is experiencing a "shudder" when accelerating. Felt mostly in 2nd and 3rd gear in the higher-half of the rpm range. It seems to be a function of engine load. I'm worried that this is related...

OK, so I went in this morning and they put it up on a lift (wheel lift, unfortunately, so we could not operate the diff while watching it). Opened it up and got more of that sewer smell. I've been trying to put miles on the truck before taking it in and have driven maybe 50-70 miles, about...

I've been very positive and professional through the whole process. Like I said before, I've made mistakes before as well. The important thing for me is to resolve it in a way that doesn't result in me having to go through another rear-axle swap again anytime soon.

I'm taking it in on Tuesday morning of this coming week. The shop has been around 30+ years, so I don't think they'll go out of business, but we'll see just how willing they are to stand behind their mistake. The guy called me yesterday and was giving me some BS about how they *must* have put...

No chunks. No singing or howling noises at highway speeds. The shop offered to inspect it and replace the bearings... should I bother or just try to get them to reimburse me for the tow? At this point I'm not very confident in their abilities, but then again I have made bonehead moron...

Like in 1000 miles instead of 100,000 miles or like in 70,000 miles instead of 100,000 miles? Guess that depends on how bad the damage was, huh...

That's the thing. The NOS rear end assembly I got from another SS member (for $250, but I had to ship it from NJ to Chicago which cost more than that). Should have been simple. I can now CONFIRM that the shop that put it in did NOT fill with gear oil. It looks like there wasn't any...

Good to know. I'm just praying that the new axle wasn't damaged too much by whatever the **** it was that went wrong (mis-aligned? no oil?) It sounded fine for the first mile or so, then started with all the crazy nasty noises. I don't plan to do much 4-wheeling or towing, so once I can get...

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Jury is still out as to whether fluid was added or not. I generally do work myself, but there are some things I do not have the tools or the 400 lb lifting power to accomplish on my own, so I get a shop to do it.

Maybe I'll pull the rear driveshaft and run front wheel drive til that axle goes out.

I bought a NOS rear axle (drum to drum) and had a shop put it in. Got about a mile down the road and it started making these HORRIBLE grinding sounds and the truck didn't want to move. Pulled over and the rear brakes (initial suspect) were not hot, but the pumpkin was hot as blazes. Had it...

Pulled open my rear diff (standard m1009 gov lock I think). ...I had a previous thread where I asked about the howling sound it was making. Anyway, opened 'er up... and nearly vomited. As the old oil came out, it was accompanied by a smell like the rankest of sewers. Anyone who's done...