So, as a hailmary, I went ahead and popped the cover on the rearend, dropped the pin and slid the axles out to check the axle bearings---i'm suspicious since it seems that the noise is isolated to this side of the car--it's a fairly cheap swap---it's the only thing on this 8.5 ten bolt I haven't replaced--everything else is brand new. My buddy John is coming by tomorrow night with the bearings and seals, and the all important slide hammer to extract the bearings. Would still like to make the RTTC event in two weeks. Even if this fixes it, I'll still move forward with the new setup in order to be able to test it at RTTC in March. The smell of gear oil is almost as bad as it was a couple of weeks ago when we put the posi in.
Hoping for a quick and easy fix. LOL. I'm reminded of why I named my car A13. Just before the lunar module was going to break into the earths atmosphere, a guy in mission control calls the flight commander and lets him know that there is a possible typhoon warning right where the module was going to land in the ocean--he says "There's a chance it won't turn into anything" to which the flight commander responds "Only if their luck changes".
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