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Ocamaro.. to be totally honet, changing the fluid isnt gonna help. You will always hear the noise. The rear of a camaro is like a tunnel, you will hear the howel. I almost guarantee that changing the rear diff fluid will not help you.. I had the same problem. I changed my fluid using Lucas Gear Oil. The stuff is thicker than gorilla snot, no difference. The sound you hear are your gears grinding together. I bet you there is play in your rear end. When you enguage the clutch, do you jear a banging noise, kinda like a clunk? That is the play in the gears. You may try and tightening up the nut on your rear end, The nut that is between the rearend housing and where the drive shaft bolts in. What you do is take outthe 4 bolts that hold in your drive shaft to your rearend. *******Besure your rear wheels are blocked or your E-brake is on.Or the car will roll****** The four bolts are 10mm . Once they are out drop the shaft outta the way. There will be a nut about an inch and a sixteenth (1 1/16) or 1 1/8. Before you try and tighten it,not too much, you will burn out the gearsif you over tighten them.try and see if the rear yolk (thats where the drive shafts bolts into) has any play meaning if you can pull it towards you. If you can, depending upon the travel dont waste anytime changing the fluid. If it moves slightly, slightly meaning a 1/4 inch or so, no big deal. Then consider putting a thicker fluid in the housing. And using the TFPE or what ever Banks calls it, also know as Teflon tape, I have never in my 20 years experience used it. You can, it wont hurt anything, but you wont benifit by it. If you do deceide to change the fluid, make sure before you drain the rearend that you do get the filler plug out first. Cause if you can get it out, you cant fill it. All you need is a ratchet wrench with a small extention. No socket, the end of the extention fits into the square spot. If you need any sugestions on replacing the rearend, let me know. Hopefully this helps...
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Well the only problem is that i dont only hear the sound when i am turning but i hear it all the time, when i am on the throttle its fine and i dont hear anything but the great sound of the engine(first american car love it) but when i get off the throttle i can hear the whining and grinding...so the question isshould i only hear the sound when i'm taking a turn or even on a strght road? the sound was there before the bearings job, theautoshop said that the problem was the bearings at first so i changed those....but that didnt solve my problem...i'ma got fot the cheap way and see if it helps, by the way tnx for helpin me out..
Well the only problem is that i dont only hear the sound when i am turning but i hear it all the time, when i am on the throttle its fine and i dont hear anything but the great sound of the engine(first american car love it) but when i get off the throttle i can hear the whining and grinding...so the question isshould i only hear the sound when i'm taking a turn or even on a strght road? the sound was there before the bearings job, theautoshop said that the problem was the bearings at first so i changed those....but that didnt solve my problem...i'ma got fot the cheap way and see if it helps, by the way tnx for helpin me out..
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well the problem is that i changed the bearings just a month ago and the whole month the car have been sitting and not driving more than 100-200 miles so how could the bearings be worn out if i havent driven the car, in that case the mechanic that changed those did a ****ty job i guess right? or thats not the problem......i dont know...
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well i dont hear the, clunking sound at least
, wierd grinding...well the first shop i went to said that i needed to swap out the rearend and it would cost me 1000 bucks, i just hope that the diff fluid change is gonna make me sure the other step is to change the rearend i guess. if the diff fluid change helps me i just saved 1000 bucks...
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