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Old Mar 18, 2020 | 10:40 PM
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What does Chilton or others say that the amount of labor hours it takes to Remove and Replace the rear diff in a C5 with A/T?
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I don’t know what the book says, but I have some physical limitations back and hip and I did it on jack stands in about six hours.
Not that hard if you can get it high enough. Good luck.

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I just looked on my alldatadiy.com account and they don't list the labor hours for the differential, but I could find labor hours for the automatic transaxle (6.8 hrs). The differential shouldn't be much more or less tha the transmission to be honest.



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My book shows 7 for manual and 9 for auto.
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I just pulled my auto trans/diff for the second time. 98 base with the ABS in the back. It took me 4 hours and 45 minutes by myself to get it out.
I have everything back in except the subframe now, so probably about 5 hours to reinstall. By myself, jackstands and floor jacks.
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