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Old 10-09-2020, 08:37 PM
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Default Weird grease/oil by rear brakes
Can someone help with this. Got random grease or oil all over my rear left dust shield and All over the bolts and stuff. Can’t tell if it’s grease or oil. Just changed the diff fluid two weeks ago and it only has 53k miles. Left side is covered in stuff. Right side is completely clean. Heard if it’s diff fluid it should smell bad but it doesn’t at all.


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Old 10-10-2020, 03:49 AM
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That's a rear axle seal leaking. You may have put too much fluid in there but it's got a pretty good seal, it just may be time to replace that seal.
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Yup, that is exactly what a leaky axle seal looks like, nothing random about it.
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