Nichles3

As the title says just bought a very clean 95 with a bad differential. Drained the fluid found what I thought I would, metal chunks.

Does anyone have a good place to find one? I have looked on ebay found a few, prices vary. Most with unknown miles.

Any help would be greatly appreciated so I can start driving this beauty. I'll post pictures soon.

I'm located in Central Massachusetts.

PureDrifter

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www.car-part.com

a 95-97 diff is what you want.

Nichles3

Yeah I was on there. Everything is way out west. Anyone on the easy coast where shipping won't kill me and I can get it faster?

sha4000

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Yeah the west coast has all the parts so you might have to sit and wait til one pops up. Did you call any to see what the shipping would cost? You might have to bite the bullet on there or ebay. I find sometimes other junkyards don't post ALL the parts so you might want to call some that list other parts of the car and see. That has worked for me several times.

Nichles3

Yeah eBay looks to be maybe the best option but it's going to take well over a week to get out to me. Here's a quick pic I took this morning.

Shmee

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Lol, looks like my car!
Or as it did when I bought mine!

sha4000

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Yeah the car looks nice.

IBGREEZY

This is the first I'm hearing of differential failure on the LS. How many miles on the odometer?

PureDrifter

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it's not a known issue, but as these ars age/get passed through random owners we're going to start seeing a lot more completely random failures.

Nichles3

159k. Looks like the input shaft seal was leaking for a while and no one changed it. So it leaked out until there was hardly any diff fluid left and I am guessing the input shaft bearing is toast. Once I get the replacement I plan on take a look inside the bad one.

Nichles3

Diff is on its way from Cali. Can't wait for it to get here.

Greg5OH

did you get it from TLS?

Nichles3

Nope off ebay.

Shmee

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Let us know how it works out.

IBGREEZY

Ok, that makes sense. I was under the impression the unit failed under normal driving conditions without signs of wear. Clearly this is the result of poor maintenance/inspection.
Glad to hear she'll be back on the road soon

I guess I am fortunate to live in CA with an abundance of LS400's at local salvage yards. I also live very close to Sunrise Blvd Sacramento aka dismantler heaven