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Just rebuilt tail housing on the transmission. Now I can hear other things going on. This is a 98 OBW 250k. Are there races in the front end of the rear differential that gets noisy? I do have some rust there. Here is a clip I recorded with back wheels up in the air a little and I was spinning the wheels. Sounds like it is coming from where the drive shaft connects to the differential.

 

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Nothing from the heat shield. Maybe a rock. I am going to disconnect the drive shaft and spin it. I have a gut feeling the roller bearing 806325020 is worn. Maybe even the entire flag is rusted out. Part for that is 38358AA000.

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good video, i wasn't ablet to listen to it til today.

 

sounds like it's external more than internal - like something right there at that rusted flange is rubbing.   run it and wear that rust off!!?!?  LOL

did the car sit for an extended period of time?

 

if a bearing was making that much noise turning by hand i'd expect some other symptoms - hard to turn, grinding, play...

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