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When you change your rear axle fluid..............
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<blockquote data-quote="Afterimage" data-source="post: 297805" data-attributes="member: 7676"><p>Here is a little update to what's been going on here with regards to my car and changing diff fluid. As mentioned in another post back in Oct. 2022 I did another fluid change shortly before parking the car for the winter. On this change I decided to try the "Mopar" spring washers shown in this post above with all the pics.</p><p></p><p>Once I parked the car for winter storage I would check that area the odd time and noticed a sweat at the bottom of both plugs. I'd wipe it and leave it for a few days and it would continue to have a sweat.</p><p></p><p>Back in mid Feb. I decided to pull the plugs and changed them out for the "Honda" metal washers that I dremelled for them to fit over the plugs. Put them back and still developed a sweat that became a hanging drip at the fill plug when I checked it last week after coming home from holidays.</p><p></p><p>Basically it looks like all this effort to find a washer that won't disintegrate like the OE rubber washer was all for not. This morning I pulled both plugs, drained my fresh fluid into a container, refill and put the plugs back in with the OE washer. At the moment there is no issue but I'll give it a few hours then go out and check to make sure no signs of fluid leakage is there.</p><p></p><p>1 note, those plugs DO NOT need to be tightened a lot..............go hand tight then just a snug with a ratchet (I use a 1/4" drive ratchet with a 1/4 to 3/8" square adapter). If you decide to really reef on it to tighten is when you will damage those rubber washers. If no leaks after my check I will get a marker and mark where the plug is in relation to a mark on the case so in the future I only tighten to that point.</p><p></p><p>Edit: 2 checks several hours apart....... all good no more drip/sweat at the plugs and position marked. 1 more check in the morning tomorrow should be good to go! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up :thumbsup:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" data-shortname=":thumbsup:" /></p><p></p><p>Edit #2: checked it this morning.....................no more sweat or hanging drip at the plugs.................OE washer for the win ALA it doesn't get wrecked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Afterimage, post: 297805, member: 7676"] Here is a little update to what's been going on here with regards to my car and changing diff fluid. As mentioned in another post back in Oct. 2022 I did another fluid change shortly before parking the car for the winter. On this change I decided to try the "Mopar" spring washers shown in this post above with all the pics. Once I parked the car for winter storage I would check that area the odd time and noticed a sweat at the bottom of both plugs. I'd wipe it and leave it for a few days and it would continue to have a sweat. Back in mid Feb. I decided to pull the plugs and changed them out for the "Honda" metal washers that I dremelled for them to fit over the plugs. Put them back and still developed a sweat that became a hanging drip at the fill plug when I checked it last week after coming home from holidays. Basically it looks like all this effort to find a washer that won't disintegrate like the OE rubber washer was all for not. This morning I pulled both plugs, drained my fresh fluid into a container, refill and put the plugs back in with the OE washer. At the moment there is no issue but I'll give it a few hours then go out and check to make sure no signs of fluid leakage is there. 1 note, those plugs DO NOT need to be tightened a lot..............go hand tight then just a snug with a ratchet (I use a 1/4" drive ratchet with a 1/4 to 3/8" square adapter). If you decide to really reef on it to tighten is when you will damage those rubber washers. If no leaks after my check I will get a marker and mark where the plug is in relation to a mark on the case so in the future I only tighten to that point. Edit: 2 checks several hours apart....... all good no more drip/sweat at the plugs and position marked. 1 more check in the morning tomorrow should be good to go! 👍 Edit #2: checked it this morning.....................no more sweat or hanging drip at the plugs.................OE washer for the win ALA it doesn't get wrecked. [/QUOTE]
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