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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Venom351R" data-source="post: 935565" data-attributes="member: 10407"><p>Went to replace my pinion seal back in oct as some finial wrenching on  the car for the year and after I got the drive shaft off I went to check  the preload reading on the rear end with an inch lb torque wrench but I  had 0 preload on the rear end. I did this with the brakes off b/c they  were dragging on the calipers. When I did take the pinion nut off the  flange just fell off when I thought and was told that I would have to  hammer it off. So my question is what do I do from here? Is there  substantial damage to the rear end as far as having to rebuild it with  new bearings? And what would cause a no preload reading on the rear end?</p></blockquote><p></p>