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Old 05-23-2020, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Overboost View Post
Took your advice srmmmm and pulled the shaft (since the diff is not installed or connected) and added some more grease. Surprisingly there was no rust but really not a lot of grease in the splines. Added some extreme pressure red grease and happy to take your suggestion and spend 5 minutes for piece of mind.

You should be good to go now for a long time on that OB. I've got 240,000 miles on mine since it was replaced and repacked. Last inspection at 360,000 miles showed everything fine with plenty of grease still in there.


Sad the factory didn't do a better job of that originally.


2002 X5 3.0 376,600 miles
2014 428i 66,700 miles


2004 325i sold at 123,600 miles
2001 325i sold at 66,000 miles


1970 Firebird - Under restoration - sending dash cover and gauges out for remake $$$$
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