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I am losing coolant in the expansion tank and can't find any leak anywhere so my guess is water pump. The thing is i don't see any sign of coolant in the oil, for those who had a bad water pump, were you able to tell from the oil? Usually the oil gets foamy and you can see some white residue in...

exactly what i said, transmission still works, only the splines and PTU are shot, car can be driven in 2wd

well i have yet to see a transmission that was fried because of the PTU, at least i haven't read anything about that here, when people change the transmission because of a bad PTU it is because the splines are sheared in the main diff which will only affect the awd system. Have you had a...

well if you buy it awd it will eventually becomes fwd so that doesn't change anything :)

well i don't know where you are but have you tried to see if the awd is working? Try to find a slippy surface and do a quick acceleration, if one wheel spins and you get a flashing awd sysmbol in your dash then the awd doesn't work. If the car is on the lift and they put it in drive and the...

i don't know how the inner parts work but it seems like it is just a magnet that connects the driveshaft to the rear diff when the magnet is engaged. Not sure what you mean by solenoid...

there is no connector there, what gives up is the junction, look at my picture on post #14

damn 2000$ isn't a bad price considering the amount of work needed for such a job from a dealership.

if the light is solid than yes it is the solenoid, you should be able to fix it. what did you do for the sheared splines? How did they solved it? New Diff? That must have cost a lot of money!

About the aftermarket solution for the diff wire, the thing is only us in northern places where there is salt have these problems, where they don't use salt on the roads the problem must not be there. if you have a flashing awd, that is not it, the wire problem on the rear diff would lit a...

sorry pictures aren't really in order but you get the point. last one

If there are people interested in fixing their awd without buying a new transmission because of the transmission spline problem, you can buy a new set of gears that needs to be installed in the diff and on the transfer case shaft. There is a shop in Russia that actual can install those if you...

yes you can remove the driveshaft, in fact, you don't really have the choice... The light won't show on the dash as long as you keep the rear diff in place. The light will flash for 10 seconds if it needs the awd and realises it doen't work (like if you accelerate quickly on slippery road) but...

I also decided not to swap the coolant, i am just waiting for the car to die on it's own and figure i will be getting the water pump failure long before the acid coolant can cause any sort of damage to something else. 2007 with 200k miles, don't know if the coolant was changed by previous owner...