Yep. Smashed my car (S13) into a wall on my driver's side. Ended up demolishing my tension rod, FLCA, RLCA, toe rod, and bending my subframe. But that's another story.
When I went underneath to inspect/remove everything I also swapped out my welded dif for my open (no more dorifto for me
). When I unbolted the driver's side axle from the diff it started leaking this orange-y cream colored goo (Axle grease?) from where the axle attatches to the dif. To be honest I didn't inspect the rubber boot thingy on the axle very carefully, but I didn't see anything that immediately jumped out at me. I let the fluid drain out untill it stopped (leaked maybe, 2-3 table spoons worth of goop) then bolted it back up.
I've been driving for maybe, 400-500 miles since then without any noticable noises, grinding or clunking or anything.
I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out a) wtf leaked out of my axle haha, b) did I damage anything, c) how bad is it to run around on an axle that, potentially, has lost a majority of it's grease, d) what can I do to fix it, as in, can i get a new boot and repack the joint or do i need a whole new axle.
I found this:
http://zilvia.net/f/tech-talk/96731-...le-grease.html and now I'm worried haha. I was wondering if anyone could provide some more situation-specific insight. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.