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Well, there are a couple of issues that would cause this to surface, even though the build date was outside of the recall. Because the reverse carrier is a "floating" design, there is nothing to prevent the centerline of the planetary housing to cock in relation to the centerline of the sun or ring gear. With driving conditions that have frequest directional changes, as seen in snow plowing, there appears to be an additional load applied to the pinion shafts. If the "rolled" over ends of the shafts were done to the minimum dimension, it's only a matter of time until the shaft pokes out due to the hammering effect of the helical gears. The other issue concerns the mechanical diode type one way clutch. As only one strut is applying when the clutch is holding (in N,P,1A,2A,1M and 2M), an additional cocking action can take place. On some units, the cocking is so bad that the pinion gears ends have come in contact with the splined teeth of the separator plates in the reverse clutch. Due to certain issues, there tends to be a lot of clearance between the mechanical diode and the case splines. As the diode chucks back and forth (rotating in the case) coupled with the end play in the reverse clutch (made worse with a waved snap ring), unless both ends of the snap ring are barbed and oriented properly, you'll be replacing quite a few of these.