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Cold weather driving, had just gotten off the highway (70 mph) and felt a little "drag" at highway speeds intermittently. Got off highway into a town,stopped at a stoplight, and when resuming travel (about10-15 mph) wheels suddenly locked. After dealing with authorities for being rear-ended, continued to home (about 30 miles @ 40 mph) and healing a metal scraping noise the whole way. Changing over to standard, but curious as to why this happened..?
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Here is one possible reason; The defferential is a seperate section from the transmission, it has it's own check plug for the lube which is either Dexron ll or SAE 80 W 90, not sure which type in a 1996. It has to be checked every once in awhile! If it gets low on lube, well.......enough said!
Thanks Pushrod...that absolutely makes sense. I'm actually a little embarrassed that I didn't think of that myself. I've worked on many cars for a lot of years (auto body by trade) but have never actually seen this happen. When I get it out (i'm convinced enough that this needs to be done) I'll tear it down just out of curiosity and let you know about your diagnosis if you'd like. Thanks Again, xntric1
Thanks, that would be nice to know. That gets overlooked very often when these vehicles, inclu. Toyota, are being serviced. Heck on my old 93 Corolla i almost let the diff. get dry from a leaky axle seal. Just heard it whining and thought to check it. You are welcom!