[Leedom]

Well, a little update on the Mach. I have been noticing a noise coming from the rear for a while now and as a result have been driving the car almost never. it has been getting louder and causing a vibration in the car. Took Ron for a drive yesterday and he said right away something was wrong. I opened up the rear and the oil looked ok, but it had only been about 5K miles since a change so that was no surprise. I turned the tires and inspected the diff. I noticed that the spider gears seemed to have a few more chips in them since last time but did not see anything in the oil (found some chips on the magnetic plug though). We took backlash measurements and had a variance from about.12 most of the way around to about .01 at one point. Took some other measurements and we have a problem. We did not have time to take the carrier out since we are working on my dad's Mach so the car will be sitting for awhile. Need to prepare for the worst so I am going to look into options.