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Originally Posted by harpua00
thanks for the comments Army. The stripped bolt is one of the rear diff mount bolts. The rear diff mount is held to the underside of a body frame member with 4 bolts, it's one of those 4 that I stripped. I think you are talking about 4 bolts that hold the diff itself to the subframe.....I didn't touch those.
About the axles rubbing the diff. output seals, I don't think that is the case. When I slid the axles into the diff. I heard them both bottom down solidly against metal. If the seal was rubbing I wouldn't have heard that metal-on-metal clink. I'm mostly concerned that the axle stub ends in the diff may somehow effect internal gear clearance within the diff. and if so I'm worried about having taken out too much clearance.
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Hmmm did you strip just the bolt and not the captive nut inside the chassis... I hope for you it is just the bolt. In this case replace it with a 8.8 strength bolt of a similar size. I think you need to make sure all four bolts are tightly in there. Imagine those coming loose - the whole back end and sub frame would move about...
With regards to the rubbing sound - if the axle isn't rubbing on the seals then you could be pulling the gears in the diff too far up against the diff bearings... Before you RTV the diff cover and re-fill the diff I'd take a look inside and see what is going on. But from the comments above it sounds like you need a different sized clips / spacers...
...Just so you don't feel left out - this job was also a pain for me - I carefully covered the back end of my diff (without cover) with a plastic bag to go and have a tea break... only to come back and see said plastic bag floating off down the road and loads of sand being blown onto the gears... I had to remove the whole unit and clean it out.
Good luck