Found some issues when I crawled under the truck

[ScotsmanSD]

Driving home from the Overland Expo SoCal show today & thought the steering felt a bit different. Crawled under the truck & found the fox steering stabilizer hanging loose. It was installed by the dealership before I drove it off the lot so I’ll be taking it back there in the morning. While under the truck I also noticed a drip of water (at least I think it is water) from the end of a pipe/hose. There also appears to be a leak from the front diff seal. I’ll have the dealer do a thorough check while it’s up on the ramps.

 

[Tazzieman]

Loose bolt = lazy dealer. Should have marked the bolt also.

 

[MrMike]

Driving home from the Overland Expo SoCal show today & thought the steering felt a bit different. Crawled under the truck & found the fox steering stabilizer hanging loose. It was installed by the dealership before I drove it off the lot so I’ll be taking it back there in the morning. While under the truck I also noticed a drip of water (at least I think it is water) from the end of a pipe/hose. There also appears to be a leak from the front diff seal. I’ll have the dealer do a thorough check while it’s up on the ramps.

Water is your A/C condeser drain, diff seal needs replacing.

 

[INEOS OG]

Did that smell like gear oil? It doesn't look like gear oil to me give it a taste and see what you think.

How many miles on your rig?

 

[ScotsmanSD]

Just turned 8000 miles today, I am not mechanically inclined or attuned to the naunced taste profiles of diff vs other oils. Looked like the oil was coming from the diff & dripping down onto the casing, but I guess it could have dripped down from something higher up.

I thought the water leak could be from the AC system, just hadn’t seen anything on the driveway before, but it was a lot hotter today, so I had the AC on higher & longer today.

Either way I’m lucky enough to have a dealership 15 miles down the road so I’ll get it in there to check everything out.

Thanks for the input everyone.