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Trashy ride. Car angled like a demon. They could easily fail completely soon. Top mount could fail in less than 100 miles. Maybe they’d last…but Not worth it. I’d rather drive trashy old struts and wear a bike helmet for my head slamming the ceiling for a winter than install that garbage a shop can just swap the struts out, take them thr old assembly and new struts. you can do the assembly swap yourself and a decent shop shouldn’t charge much just to swap a strut into an assembly.

answered you in another thread.

Is there any way to isolate whether the issue is with the viscous coupler / center diff vs the front differential? Car shows classic signs of center diff failure, but mechanic says he "feels it all in the front, so it must be front diff" and therefore needs a new transmission. I can't afford to throw money at this and a tranny is out of the question. Car has no symptoms cold, but locked 4wd when warm, noticeable when parking, and worse after highway.