gear whine

[EMCD]

 Ok, now they are saying I need new bearings in the rear and a new rear axle seal. Cost to repair, over $1k. These guys said when I dropped the car off that they could restore the whole car. I'm pulling the car tomorrow and finding someone else.

[Chryco Psycho]

Dr diff can supply a whole new center section for around 1 k

[ChallengerHK]

Ok, now they are saying I need new bearings in the rear and a new rear axle seal. Cost to repair, over $1k. These guys said when I dropped the car off that they could restore the whole car. I'm pulling the car tomorrow and finding someone else.

Is that an awfully high price, or am I missing something?

[EMCD]

i think it is.

[GranCuda1970]

Yeah, that is spendy!!!  NAMC in Portland completely restored my rear end and swapped the weak no posi center for the strong 489 case they had extra in thier shop put 391's in it new brake drums and brake pads new brake lines and painted the whole thing for 1500 bucks. They are a real good group of mechanics If i could give em 50 grand to restore my whole car I would. They haved restored cars from europe if you got the money do a fanstastic restoration. They painted everything to factory.

[EMCD]

Turns out the whole 3rd member is junk. Man, fixing up and old car is kind of like having a boat. The cash bleed is brutal!

[GranCuda1970]

Yeah! considering it about a grand for a NEW punkin! Pick up a old one for about 400 bucks but most of the time getting em back up to par is more work than a new ring and pinion.

[EMCD]

 Yep, another painful lesson for emcd

[EMCD]

Ok, they say that everything is fried. Need new everything. Cost out the door, 2.9k. Can this be real?

[ChallengerHK]

Ok, they say that everything is fried. Need new everything. Cost out the door, 2.9k. Can this be real?

It's real in that it's really what they want to charge you, but that doesn't mean it's a good price. As Neil said above, you can get a whole new center section ready to go for about $1000. Assuming that you even need axles, they aren't that expensive, and since the center section will already be set up you can do the rest of the work yourself pretty easily.

[Chryco Psycho]

Contact Cass at Doctor diff http://www.doctordiff.com/
you can get a whole dana done for $1800 or so or a Center section for $1000-1200
 throw in a plane ticket & I will come & help & you will still spend less !!

[brads70]

Ok, they say that everything is fried. Need new everything. Cost out the door, 2.9k. Can this be real?

    run Forest RUN!