Sorry to revive an old thread but 2 things.

1) Thanks.

2) The right side C clip is much more of a bear to put on than the left (drivers side.) I bought some needle nose vice grips ~$10 hoping not to use them. After struggling with the driver side, broke them out and poof... magic... easy as butter. Now for the right side... no way. The nose of those pliers was not long enough for the angle that was available between the vice grips themselves and the angle of that big gear on the left and the spider gear on the right and the angle of the c-lip tab which faces inward - don't worry if this makes no sense to you, the moment you got to put the right side c-clip in - it will. Then in utter frustration, I put the c-clip in backwards - that is with the tab facing outward toward the spider gear. With the all the angles available, it actually went in easy enough! However, as the adrenaline rushes out of my blood and I was staring at my self created solution, it dawned on me that it probably was just a bad idea. Now getting that clip out with the tab pointing toward the gear, let me tell you, was impossible to do it the same way I pulled it out... with a metal kind of dental pick. The reason was now there was absolutely no angle to grant any leverage to use the little hole in the c-clip as no mater how you rotated the clip, the other side of the hole was covered by the axle. At this point I literally almost cried. After staring at it for about 30 minutes, I rotated the clip so now the tab was facing toward the front of the car far and I was looking at the two ends of the clip instead (the open end as it were) With some small screw drivers I managed to push the clip off! Victory right? NO!!.. Utter panic, as I couldn't fish out the clip with a magnet - it was really back there between two gears. I was terrified that I was going to have to remove the entire differential and shake it upside down like a piggy bank to get the clip out. At this point a tear might have actually welled up in my eye. I will swear to anybody it was sweat as it was pretty hot out this day, but... I sat under the car for another 15 minutes just staring until a last ditch idea hit me.

I removed both axles from the wheels (left them in the differential). Put the transmission in neutral and rotated the drive shaft with my hand. The entire internals of the differential moved! The clip fell with a nice 'clink' to the bottom of the differential where I could finally retrieve it. I know for you experts this solution might seem obvious, but to a newbie in utter panic, frustrated, out of simple solutions and mixture of diesel oil, gear oil and sweat filling my eyes, it was quite a breakthrough.

Ok how did I get the right side clip to stay on in the end? I swear I do not remember. I think a finger and one screw driver just so it would kind of stick a little. Then using two screw drivers to urger it on a little more than tapping it with one screw driver on each side of the tab a little at a time.

Just use this as guide of what not to do. Honestly after doing it, it is not a hard job but it kind of has to be done very specifically. Its also kind of dirty.