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I pulled the front shaft and took it around the block looks like it will work for now. The gear noise has diminished, but is still there. The damage seems to be mostly on the back side of the gearset, more noise on decel, but now with the shaft out there is no load on ring and pinion. Drained a...

Thanks for the quick reply on that. If the worst problem she has is having to set the parking brake every time she parks, that will be great. I will get the shaft out and drive it around. If it drives normally then she will be 2wd tomorrow. Might even get better mileage.

So before I get flamed for not searching before asking this question, let me say that I did search but did not find what I was looking for. Anyway here's the deal. A friend of mine has a 97 Mountaineer and it is eating it's front differential. She really does not have the money to fix it...