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Changed all the diff fluids today, front one had a sliver but looks like its a piece of the NPT threads on the fill/drain. Middle may have had a tinyyyy bit of water but scoping the diff internals showed no rust.
Got the new batteries and the wallet is hurting (6-700 a piece) from the AGMs but with my experience with flooded lead acid in my MTV I wanted the increased CCA of AGM (although the C12 starts way faster than the C7 so maybe it wouldn't be an issue.)
Touched a plug on the ABS module (or maybe TC) and it just crumbled like a dried out cookie. I assume every other connector is the same. Nice thing is, they are just seals so the pins can still be connected.
Found 2 ball joint seals that are cracked. Not looking forward to that as the replacement process is very involved.
The big surprise....Saw a castle nut backed off on the "tie rod". The taper was also loose. Had this nut fallen off, the rear wheel would have turned violently to left or right. Glad I caught it. Looks like when a service was done, the nut wasn't tightened and as such the cotter pin wasn't installed.
Got the new batteries and the wallet is hurting (6-700 a piece) from the AGMs but with my experience with flooded lead acid in my MTV I wanted the increased CCA of AGM (although the C12 starts way faster than the C7 so maybe it wouldn't be an issue.)
Touched a plug on the ABS module (or maybe TC) and it just crumbled like a dried out cookie. I assume every other connector is the same. Nice thing is, they are just seals so the pins can still be connected.
Found 2 ball joint seals that are cracked. Not looking forward to that as the replacement process is very involved.
The big surprise....Saw a castle nut backed off on the "tie rod". The taper was also loose. Had this nut fallen off, the rear wheel would have turned violently to left or right. Glad I caught it. Looks like when a service was done, the nut wasn't tightened and as such the cotter pin wasn't installed.