$60 for another oil change or several thousand for a motor?

 

If you don't want to replace the very expensive differentials in those axles, drain them and refill them with fresh diff. oil (check your owner's manual).

 

So did you get a deer? Feel for ya, several yrs ago, after my old Ford 100 was stolen, I had to resort to borrow my fatherinlaws camper van to go deer hunting. Going up the mountain on a bull dozer road was OK, but coming down a week later I had to do a hairpin turn over a stream, and got it hung up sitting on only 2 wheels. Getting ready to rain hard, and I had visions of that stream turning into a river. So after scratching my head and taking a few pix, I got the jack out and some blocks of wood with a few flat rocks as insurance. I jacked it as much as I dared, got in and floored it up a muddy slippery incline fulling expecting to tip it over. Got a ways down the hill, stopped and had a beer while I fried up some deer liver and onions watching the rain fall. Good times.

 

yeah seriously, hopefully a nice 12 point buck helped this feel not as bad?!?

 

sounds like one hell of a bad hunting trip, maybe time to look for a 4-wheeler. lol (good luck)