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Mr.P my guy says you must be bumping into the wrong people or driving on the wrong side of the road - LOL How he described things is that the carrier adjuster nuts have lock tabs that fail in service. In his first attempt on another Chevy he installed genuine brand new parts and they failed inside a week. His solution is to drill and tap the case to take locking bolts. Then the assembly cannot move. This mod would apply to any AWD GMC truck or SUV so if someone was onto it the could make a killing. Chevrolet doesn't have a fix for this. Hope this helps. Regards Andy

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My 2004 SS had a front diff howl that reached the point that something had to be done. The first diff specialist I went to wanted to replace crown wheel & pinion, bearings and seals because in his opinion if you could play a tune on the throttle it must be crown wheel etc. His quote was $1,900.00 plus parts and labour, or $4,500.00 in round figures and around three weeks to get everything together & sent to New Zealand! So what about Chev tough and all the blurb - I've only done 69,000 kms. I sat on it for a couple of weeks and tracked down another diff specialist half a mile down the road from the first one who builds diffs for race cars and dragsters. What he has discovered is that the spacer creating the pre-load in the front diff cannot withstand the constant pressure and it gets munted, moves and you end up with slop in the diff that eventually causes the bearings to fail. He does a mod to a replacement spacer and anchors it to prevent it moving. Problem solved once and for all instead of having to return as successive replacements of the standard parts continue to fail. So far so good. The truck is back to its old quiet self on the road and my bill was $1,250.00.

I've owned my 2004 Victory Red SS from new and with the current trend in exchange rates it's time to look at importing and converting a new model. The boys have grown a lot in the last three years too so a crew cab is first pick. 6 litres and 367hp, four wheel discs, leather, chrome, Corsa, all of this is easy! What I can't decide is whether it will be Silverado or Sierra because I can't get to see the two in Nw Zealand before I buy. What is the consensus?