Footofgod
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Not for nothing, but I screwed around for a couple years with junkyard diffs and Dropping the front diff is a PITA, and installing it is worse. Do it once and do it right, is my recommendation.
Do you even know for sure that it's your ring and pinion that are shot?
Really wasn't that bad. Dropping the old one out took about an hour. Putting the new one in about an hour and a half.
Whatever the problem was, the junkyard diff has fixed it for now. I have 4wd with no clunks. Went ahead and changed out the gear oil in the junker. Now we just have to get it out on a trail and test it a bit.
I'm going to pull the old one apart on Sunday so I can identify the problem and have the whole thing rebuilt. I'll take some pics of the inside so we can all enjoy.