Rear Diff/Skid Plates

I have a 14 800 XT Max with Tatou 4s, skids, and rear Trunk, all camo. I had my rear dif replaced the end of Nov. We, the Tech and I, took them apart, they didnt look any different. The tech told me that he takes the new ones apart and checks the gear lash and ajusts if needed. The new one we put in mine, we adjusted. My oringinal was just noisy. Still working fine. Not sure on the time for skids. I ordered my skids from a guy in Wisconsin, he is on the forums somewhere, and ebay, cant think of his name. He makes the thick plastic ones. I know it didnt take 10hrs to put them on. I did alot of modifying to my skids though because I wanted to leave all my track mounting hardware on the ATV. Skid plates and track mounting hardware dont mix. Maybe thats why they quoted 10hrs. I would look into it though and ask about what is needed to switch out the tracks. I can now switch from tracks to wheels or wheels to tracks in about 35-45 min, I torque my lug bolts. I dont remove my skid plates, they stay on all year, along with all my track mounting plates. I also have a front receiver hitch and a Alpine flex plow. The plow does not fit with the front receiver, so that also had to be modified to work with the plow. The trunk works good so far, its the 32gallon one I think with the linq system. I used it alot for Ice fishing. I had issues with my dealer also when it came to adding attachments, that why I deceided to just do it myself, then it was done right and how I wanted it. I had the DPS overheat 2 times this winter, but I was going very slow and no snow, it was on max, otherwise it was good with the tracks. Good luck.