Originally Posted by hour

Thanks dudes. All good things to think about that go beyond simply setting the seal in an even 5.5mm.

As of my last post this morning, it had dripped its second or third softball sized spot on my driveway, but I took it for a spin to get breakfast (5 miles each way) and it started nutting all over the exhaust again maybe 3 miles in. Odd since I actually had 16 miles on the re-set seal depth without it happening enough to hit the exhaust. I don't know what the X factor is - turning too sharp? Maybe diff pressurizing as mentioned? Parked it in the driveway and its continuing to bleed out (I keep slightly shifting where I park to see the spot)

Won't have a new seal to play around with until the 31st and it appears we'll have snow on the ground then (finally), which probably won't melt for an eternity. Going to be some shit to resolve.. had I known all of this would occur I would have had a shop do it.

Going to do all of the following when I get to taking my third stab at this:
Check diff breather
Inspect the hell out of the inside of the diff where the seal sits, use sand paper if I'm skeptical
Install new seal

If that doesn't take care of it, I will have the axle replaced.