wild4stangs

Hey guys, fron pinion seal apears to be leaking where the front driveshaft connects to the front differential. Would this be covered by the 100k powertrain warranty ? I have 70 k on the truck. Oh and by the way, I just had to have both passenger side ball joints replaced and 6 new tires, as my goodyear gs-a's were all dry rotted on the inside of the tires near the rim...

If not, how much would this cost to have repaired ?

PourinDiesel

Sorry to hear about it.
Mine is too, but is not to the point of dripping.
Or at least I havent noticed a drip on the driveway yet.

wild4stangs

Hey... Oh mine is leakin, the botton of the diff is wet... No spots in the DW though...

RonP

I had mine done right before the 36,000 mark so it wasn't a charge at all. Inside the 70,000 would have been 100.00 and now over 70,000, its on you. I can't imagine someone would charge more than a 100.00 to do it.

good luck

Hounddog

The GOODYEARS wern't dry rotted.they were DEFECTIVE.Its been a issue that I'm sure GOODREAR is aware of.Most have been pro rated on a new tire etc.The pinion seal has TWO ways to do it.One costs more then the other! Correct way is to reset pinion preload which to do so requires a fair amount of dissasembly of the differantial(as per the repair manual).The CHEAPER way with NO warranty is a decent tech marks the threads on the pinion nut and reinstalls said pinion nut to same thread.If it howls it will take a QUICK readjustment.Some techs can do them all day like this and get them spot on.Others aren't so lucky.

jnck

I just did mine at 136000. It is pretty simple.

They better not charge very much the seal is $14 and it took less than 1 hour

welndmn

Do these axles use Pre load shims or a Crush sleve?