CHADsterss

Ok so last night I was pulling into my neighbor hood and as I was decelerating when a car in front of me was turning onto a street I heard this loud "CLUNK." So I kept driving and as I turned onto my street I heard it again so I hurried up and parked my car and left it there for the night hoping in the morning it would go away. This morning I go out to my car and go for a little test drive to figure out what the hell is going on, so as I'm going everything is fine until I start decelerating... The noise happens again. After I had stopped at the second stop sign and was at a complete stop my "low trac" light was on for a few seconds and shortly after that my brake peddle started vibrating and it has never done anything like that before. So after the vibrations and after the "low trac" light went away my "ABS INOP" light lit up and remained illuminated as I turned around and came home....


*****NOTE: My transmission just got rebuilt maybe 700 miles ago and shortly after that it was giving me a P1870 code which I took back to the shop and they cleared it and everything was back to normal. **ALSO: prior to this happening my rear end has been whining for about 6k miles** *****

What do yall think it is... My transmission or my rear end?

Thanks yall any help is appreciated!!

jaysan

iTrader: (8)

Do you see any fluids on the ground where you car is parked ? To me it sounds like your rear

CHADsterss

No, no fluids at all.

Bad Chad

iTrader: (94)

Sounds like a rearend issue too. Pull the rear cover and take a look

CHADsterss

Yup thats what I'm about to do... How many qts of fluid do i need to buy?

Trendkiller Z

Definitely something going on with the rear end. Check the see if the ABS sensor somehow came unplugged.

CHADsterss

Yup my spider gears are all missing teeth!

Question how in the hell do we pull the axle?

jaysan

iTrader: (8)

Pix ? ^^^ I wonder how that happened !?!?!

01 WS6 6.0

iTrader: (8)

Your going to have to remove the wheels tires and brakes and slide out the axles. Right now would be a good time to just upgrade the rear if you have funds. If not I'd beef up the 10 bolt.

Homer's Uncle

Do you have a standard rear axle or a limited slip rear axle? Standard rear axle holds 1.75 quarts of synthetic 75W90 and limited slip should be about the same but you need to buy 4 oz. of posi additive.

H. Uncle

CHADsterss

I'll post pics later on! I'm tryin to figure out how to slide the axle... There's C-clips holding it in place and it won't slide out! Any ideas??

Homer's Uncle

Make sure your trans. is in neutral so it is easier to rotate your differential carrier and turn it so that you can remove bolt that is holding pinion shaft, should take 5/16 or 8mm wrench I recommend six point this bolt will be very tight. Once bolt is remove you can remove shaft and this will allow you to push the axles in releasing the c-clips so that the axles can now be removed.
I hope this helps.

H. Uncle

CHADsterss

Ah yea the pin does not want move but less than 1/4 of an inch

Homer's Uncle

Your bolt didn't brake off in your pinion shaft did it? That happens from time to time. How long is the bolt you removed? It should have a long smooth shoulder after the threads that is about three quarters of an inch long???
If there is nothing after the threads then part of the bolt is still in differential
carrier preventing pinion shaft from sliding out. I hope that is not the case.

CHADsterss

Yea the smooth shoulder is still there

CHADsterss

Wow nvm the very tip of the smooth part broke off!!!

Homer's Uncle

That sucks, never happened to me but one of my guys has removed them quite a few times. He recommends drilling them with left handed drill bit, usually backs out the broken piece. Another method is drill hole and use easy out to remove broken piece and he said he was even so lucky as to use compressed air to blow a piece out once. He did say that when drilling you will need to hold pinion shaft to keep it from moving so that you successfully drill into what is left of bolt. For access he said sometimes necessary to loosen side bearing caps to get straight shot at drilling bolt out of pinion shaft. I don't know how that will work with the axles still in?

H. Uncle

CHADsterss

Ok after hours of fooling with it, we dropped the rear end an got it on jack stands, we got the rest of the bolt out and now the pin will still only move 1/4 of an inch either way.... Any advice?

rabiddog

iTrader: (1)

Buy a 12 bolt or a 9". If you lived a little closer I would just bring you my old one.

CHADsterss

I seriously would if I had the money... I'm just going to beef up my 10 bolt like said above