So...... The truck is back in the driveway. All is good w/ the rear end.
Very strange. They didn't find anything wrong. They did however find a foreign object in the diff.
Your eyes do not deceive you. That is a stud of some kind. The guy said he took the entire diff apart, disassembled the locker, he could not find what that went to. He said the thread pitch didn't match up to ANYTHING in the rear end.
First of all, WTactualF. Secondly, if that didn't come FROM the diff, then someone set me up the bomb?