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Old May 1, 2016 | 03:47 PM
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Diff Oil change
Everyone always mentions the transmission service being extremely important but what about the diff? Anyone ever change it or know the intervals to change?
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Old May 1, 2016 | 07:12 PM
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Search the forum for differential and you can see several threads on this topic. I think the consensus is to change out diff fluid every 50k miles. Particularly if you are hard on your truck or tow...
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Just change it at the same interval as your transmission. It shouldn't cost very much, so it's cheap insurance.
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Old May 1, 2016 | 09:06 PM
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Thanks guys
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Probably because a transmission repair is $$$$ and differential failure is rare. But it's cheap insurance and easy, so no reason not to do it.
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my understanding is the ML and GL are prone to front differential problems, i would change my fluid

mine are done every 40,000
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