Learn how to replace differential fluid in your rear differential. This process will also work for replacing differential fluid in the front differential. Check your owner’s manual for your specific vehicle but in general you should change the differential fluid every 50k miles under normal driving conditions and every 25k miles if you tow a lot.
Main steps:
1. Loosen fill bolt
2. Loosen drain bolt (or diff cover bolts)
3. Drain differential
4. Clean gasket material off differential and cover
5. Install new gasket
6. Installer differential cover
7. Torque down differential bolts in a criss-cross pattern
9. Fill differential with the correct spec gear oil
10. Tighten fill bolt to spec
And that’s all there is to replacing the differential fluid!
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I would leave the bottom bolt and pry at the top.
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What to do if the differential gears are loose or there's a small hit when you push the gas?
could you pump out the old oil with a small electic pump or hand pump ??
Duh. Use a suction hose from the fill port and skip the gasket work. Duh.
I enjoy seeing auto parts being so clean. I wish I knew what you did to clean the diff cover.
Id love to start flipping cars, moneys been real low
Just use a suction pump, if seal isn't leaking no reason to take apart
David Guetta could not have done it better himself.
I have a 2014 Toyota Corolla does my car have this do I need to do this maintenance in my car? I’m trying to do all the regular maintenance to my car. My car has 120,000 miles. I’m changing the spark plug transmission fluid the coolant the oil. What else did I change or drain? I want my car to 300,000+ miles.
if the diff is howling, would doing this even matter? i guess it can't hurt?
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Specify that it is a ford 8.8
and dealer charges you $2,000
As a dude that's in his 40's and has followed your channel for years, I have always enjoyed learning stuff from you have always stopped to wat h your videos. I wished I had learned a lot of this stuff earlier on in life but, I can still do basic to moderate mechanical work. Heck, I retired from the fire service and got a job at the same municipality as a technician at the city garage lol. I love that job every day too so far. Keep putting up great videos Chris!!
forgot to mention to properly clean out the threaded holes where the bolts go
That's a new cover though.
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Do i need to let the permatex sit for some time or not
Im using a cut gasket too
Pretty simple. I can be a mechanic
Damn, this is far easier in my WRX.
Fluid looked pretty good 😂
Can u clean the gears themselves by bombing them in brake clean then just let it dry before resealing?
Glad to see I'm not the only one who forgets to open the air plug on the drain recipient. Glugg glugg glugg…
Get a Banks aftermarket diiff cover.
Just helped my buddy do both of his Duramax Colorado. Guess my tundra is up next
Thanks this was Very helpful. Can you make a video on how to fix my marriage next?
It would be awesome if you did a full differential rebuild video soon!
So awesome. Thanks Chris
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I’d be very careful with a metal pry-bar. You don’t want to gauge the surface of the differential cover, or rearend surface.
I like to use either a phenolic scraper, or plexiglass scraper. Either is pretty strong, but will not gauge. No need to worry about turning an easy job into an expensive mistake…
Where did you get the pump for fluid ??
i heard dih fluid
How many times he said gasket
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"because why make it easy?" I hear you man.
Dude you hammered a mini prybar in there and then started talking about damaging the mating surface?
"and that's all it takes" he says after 4.5 hours of hard labor fighting rusted bolts and 6 gallons of elbow grease to clean that gasket material…
It’s so well edited that looks like AI 😂