Got 125,000 miles on my rear end fluid which is amsoil SVO heavy weight stuff. 8 quarts, not 4. at 115,000 miles I checked fluid and was still good and see thru and had viscosity still. Well, a couple nights ago, i started to hear clicking at take off. The next day i scoped out where it was coming from and i think it is my rear end. I checked the dip stick and it was all bubbly and thin like water almost. i drained it and it came out black like water. I put new stuff in heavy weight stuff from walmart. LOL, did it at walmart parking lot in 10f weather, most of clicking went away, about 75%,. I notice it mostly under heavy starts and slowing down, and weird noises while turning. but not all the time. IF i let off throttle, i dont hear clicking. Very weird. When I get back to florida, which should be in another 2000 miles or so since im in appleton, wisconsin now, im going to pull the cover and scope out the innerds. There was shavings on dipsitck and drain plug, but thats good, not just floating around in the fluid. I think its normal, especially for all the miles on the fluid and considering my rear end usually has about 10,000 pounds on top of it when its only rated at 9350 I think. Anyways, im thinking my posi is shot.
What do you guys think, if it is my posi, will I screw up my gears or axles or is the damage done??? Is the posi easy to take out???? Its not like I need the posi unit anyways, its hard to do a burn out with 25,000 pounds behind you. lol
Thoughts, hopefully my rear end wont bomb on me on the way home. I already put 1300 miles on it in 2 days.
PS. it was really bad, i was at manheim PA area where I dropped off my trailer and it sounded loud even with no trailer. Then went to walmart to do my thing, and for a few miles it still clicked then went away. But under heavy load now, it happens till, but not like it used to.
Anyways, sorry for the book for a simple question, so, thoughts??? help, anything?? oh, and I did check the joints on the driveshaft, they look fine, haha
What do you guys think, if it is my posi, will I screw up my gears or axles or is the damage done??? Is the posi easy to take out???? Its not like I need the posi unit anyways, its hard to do a burn out with 25,000 pounds behind you. lol
Thoughts, hopefully my rear end wont bomb on me on the way home. I already put 1300 miles on it in 2 days.
PS. it was really bad, i was at manheim PA area where I dropped off my trailer and it sounded loud even with no trailer. Then went to walmart to do my thing, and for a few miles it still clicked then went away. But under heavy load now, it happens till, but not like it used to.
Anyways, sorry for the book for a simple question, so, thoughts??? help, anything?? oh, and I did check the joints on the driveshaft, they look fine, haha