This thread has me thinking of doing this part change even though I don't experience this. Does anyone think this will have to be a repeatable purchase? I'm curious on why they are going bad in the first place.
I think the important thing is this statement, "I've had tires balanced and alignments that seemed to fix it only for it to return days or hours later".
I feel as though this is a huge clue but I'm just not mechanical enough to know. My first thought would be it has something to do with the...
I think a lot of this has to do with the characteristic of combining a heavyish vehicle+ turbo 4 banger+ a beefy 10-speed transmission. As others have stated this thing does have about 5 different personalities.
I have the same exhaust and I have these "wet" markings as well. I assumed it was oil. I run my engine hard and runs good. Roughly at 30k now, exhaust was installed around 20k.
Id be willing to bet a lot of this stems from staffing issues. You can't train people fast enough right now, by the time you train them they find a new job/quit because the labor market is so hot.
Id be more worried about upgrading the alternator than diff breather. From my understanding, this is the weak point for mudding/water with the 5G Ranger.
Covid-19 gave corporations the excuse to have poor service. Now the corporations raised prices and won't do a damn thing to improve service to pre-covid times.