Finally changed my diff fluid, not sure when the last time it's was done. My 03 has 193k on the dash but drives great. After draining the gear oil, the fluid was low about half a qt low but the shocking or maybe not so shock thing was the deposits in the drain plug. In also drained and refilled the transmission fluid, the transmission level was right at 4qts

 

Yeah there gets to be quite a bit of build up on there, amazing people don't think to change it... SMH

 

193k...

 

a couple of pics

 

ehhhh.. looks normal.

 

really now I don't feel that bad

 

This reminds me, I need to do this. I hit 100k last week.

 

yea.. don't feel too bad..

 

I was pro-active. I changed out mine at 60K miles which was last year.

 

Its very simple to do, I was just really lazy doing this and the transmission fluid drain and fill

 

What fluid did you end up putting back in? I'm planning on doing this soon, and I'm currently searching around for whats best to put in it.

 

I went with valvoline Gear oil, not the best but thats what I had to go with better then what came out of it.

 

A lot of us use Amsoil Severe Gear 75-90, it works great.

 

Thanks for the info, putting it on my grocery list this week.

 

LOL I'm confused, is this a question? Comment? Random post?

Glad to hear you were able to do it yourself
Stuff on drain plug is normal except the right side where it looks like thicker metal shavings.