leaky differential help please

[jkp89]

hey, today i started my x onley to find a big pool of gear oil under her. i hoped under the car and found it is comeing from my front dif, right were the drive shaft comes in, it looks like. i dont know much to anything about diferentials, but i think, and hope it is onley bad gaskets, and i need to replace them. is this right? is replaceing the gasskets hard? and how much do you think it will cost? thx for any help, and the best of wheeling to you.

josh

 

[boominXplorer]

you will have to pull the whole diffy apart. Its not easy either.

 

[jkp89]

that sucks

 

[jkp89]

would it be essier, and would it be ok to just drive it in 2wd till i have my front lift springs, and manual hubs, and the the shop time then just out it on a lift and take care off all this at the same time, it'll be around 4 months. would that hurt anything worse.

josh