Rocket Man's 02 Denali Build Thread AKA "THE BEAST"

[wjburken]

Yeah I know right? Well guess what, this just snowballed on me. I was looking at videos on replacing the cv axles and noticed there should be no oil leaking from my diff the way they’re made so I crawled under and took another look. Seems The Beast does have some power after all. View attachment 257153

Well, never known you to do anything half-assed!

 

[wjburken]

i am unique tho

Well......Then “Snowflake” it is!

 

[George B]

Yeah I know right? Well guess what, this just snowballed on me. I was looking at videos on replacing the cv axles and noticed there should be no oil leaking from my diff the way they’re made so I crawled under and took another look. Seems The Beast does have some power after all. View attachment 257153

Oops! Maybe you can just replace the extension housing along with the CV.

 

[Rocket Man]

Crap, now I can’t find the part number for the axle housing. I hope I don’t have to buy the whole diff. @915_Tahoe can you help a brother out? Last 8 of my VIN is 2J105097. I need the right axle housing but when I look it up on gmpartsdirect it shows 12479320 for non AWD or 12479295 for Crew Cab (?] even though I’m under parts listed by my vin. Neither looks exactly like mine, those both have around part that mine doesn’t have.

 

[Rocket Man]

Here’s my axle tube.

 

[Rocket Man]

Here’s the one that shows up on parts lists but some say not for AWD. I’m thinking there’s just a design change to add reinforcement.

 

[Sam Harris]

Yeah I know right? Well guess what, this just snowballed on me. I was looking at videos on replacing the cv axles and noticed there should be no oil leaking from my diff the way they’re made so I crawled under and took another look. Seems The Beast does have some power after all. View attachment 257153

Dammit!

 

[George B]

Here’s the one that shows up on parts lists but some say not for AWD. I’m thinking there’s just a design change to add reinforcement.

View attachment 257175

That one has the spot for the actuator. the one you need is like this one.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/01-06-ESCA...ront-Differential-Axle-Tube-AWD-/274427311040

 

[89Suburban]

Here’s my axle tube.

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Oh shit!

 

[Rocket Man]

Now I’m wondering if I should just replace the diff itself. It looks like there’s a bunch of stuff that needs to be replaced when I do that axle housing, so far it’s adding up fast. Might be $350-400 into it and I still don’t know if I did more internal damage. I might just buy the whole diff with axles for $800 including core charge.