Watch out if you don't have skid plates.
 

I didn't so my truck is back at Ford for the 3rd time for a leaky front pinion seal. The last time it was in there they decided to change the pinion flange and this is what I ended up with:http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...r/DSC00466.jpg
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...r/DSC00469.jpg
You can see where the seal decided to grind into the flange while I was driving. So watch it if there are rocks and you have no skidplates. I really need skidplates!

good job! lol..ya that sucks.. i have 2 skids under my dodge and my gas tank skid took a little beating this past weekend

My pinion seal started leaking a month after I bought it

damn i should really get some plates soon...and your scare tactics i working...haha

make your own!

just like grow yer own, but with skidplates:439:

da DEA dun took me skidplates mon!:icon16:

What exactly caused that? A hit on the diff from a rock or just mud, dirt, and fine stuff like that?

I've had to change my front pinion seal as well. Its easy though, takes less than an hour.

I didn't see a rock and it hit the diff housing and smashed in the seal before it let go. I check under the truck and it wasn't leaking so I kept going. It took about a month before it started leaking really bad and that's when I took it in since I don't have air tools at home to change the seal myself.

I just had mine replaced last week! And I never off-road my truck.

Haha ya good ole ranger pinion seal....def. one of the weaker points of our Rangers

Awesome. I took my truck in on Monday and I got it back on Tuesday and its leaking again.

Lol that happened to me too. Got my whole front rack changed out and it was leaking when I got it back. Took it right back to the mechanic and he replaced it out again for free.

i dont see how any factory skid will protect that.

sucks tho

I thought the factory skid protected the diff.

not from the bottom side.