Well, my front diff decided to eat itself this weekend. Not quite catastrophic, but close enough. Hit a small bump on an overpass, blew both R&L inner cv boots off from the rings, and made a hellish grinding noise. Tried to creep the car forward but felt quite a bit of resistance from front end. Flat bedded to my shop. What ever is bouncing around inside the diff is dislodged at the moment and I now have a 3 wheel drive. I have no drive to the driver-left side axle. I haven't looked at the fluid yet, but I'm sure its gonna look like metallic grape nuts. Transfer-case and drive shaft splines seem to be fine.

Sooo... I here's my opportunity to swap out my 4.10s in favor of a set of 3.64 ratio diffs. A rear LSD is in the works.

Time for the axles to go as well. My question being, what recommendations do you have on CV axle replacement? OE or aftermarket,and what are your experiences? I don't have a ton of coin to drop on the project as school starts next week. Thanks for your help and suggestions.

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2005 X5 3.0, 6MT, Alpine White on Truffle Brown, Sport, Preim, and Cold Weather, Alpina Stainless Headers, AFe Intake, UUC SSK, OEM 87's, 3.64 Differential Swap,Performance Modified Euro 2 Tune, UUC LTW Flywheel and HD clutch, Bilstein B12 Suspension kit
Future mods ZHP/Schrick Cam Shaft upgrade, Operation code name:Doppelschrauben-Kompressor

Wife's Ride: 2011 e70 X5 351 M///Sport.

Also in the fold: 2004 X3 3.0, 6MT, Black Sapphire on Terracotta, port, Premium, Cold Weather.