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Metal chunk from rear diff.

Old 05-12-2015, 02:34 PM
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Metal chunk from rear diff.

When changing my fluids today, this came out with the drain magnet.

I also seem to have problems with shifting into second gear @ 7.5K RPMS. Most likely a syncro I assume. But I believe this chunk would be unrelated to that.
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Chunks are not good.
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Mistreated 10 year old car problems.
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Really wish I was the only owner of this car. I'm paying for it
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just tying thread this to where the explanation/info is on what this means

https://www.rx8club.com/new-member-f...y-diff-270191/
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