Thanks for the replies.

Took car out of the garage for a ride today...no noise. Axle im hoping. I dont think a bearing could make a noise like I heard. Bearing groan, right?

New warranty axle on the way free-of-charge from CVJ. Woohoo I get to do the rear axle job again! Actually this time it'll be easy...having done it once itll take me an afternoon.

Anyone have a 2.88 diff to swap in :-) I guess I should take this as an opportunity for improvement...

dd

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