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Mar 12, 2009 | 11:43 AM

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richmod

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Originally Posted by Riptide

Did you read the first sentence of my post?

Yep. But you obviously felt some reason to post it in this thread, so I felt some reason to reply. It's all good.

Mar 12, 2009 | 11:45 AM

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richmod

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This actually sounds seems similar to my issue - maybe it's all that's needed?

http://www.bernardembden.com/xjs/diff/index.htm

Mar 12, 2009 | 11:50 AM

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richmod

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Originally Posted by doctorstrobe

It's not clear in your post, but if they replaced just the differential carrier and ring gear assembly and not the PINION gear also then that's not good. From what I've read the gear sets are lapped together and are a matched set. An old pinion gear with 12K miles on it won't mesh right with a new ring gear.

That's a good point - I'll have to check the paperwork on that. I know they had just replaced the ring and pinion, so the pinion was only at most a hundred miles old. Still, I don't know if the new diff came with a new pinion gear or if they just re-used the slightly used one.