What could it be
03-05-2011, 08:02 AM
#1
What could it be
On the way home last night, get halfway thru town, pull away from a stop slowly and started hearing a clunking or woop woop woop sound. Sounded like the driveshaft was falling apart, lol. Stop and crawled under it with a light, everything looked fine. Ujoints intact and I shock on the shaft, seemed to be solid still. I took the chance and drove it home, it made the noise bad at first, then less later on down the road. I put the truck in neutral and revved in while at speed and the sound went away, back in gear and it still makes the noise. What gear its in doesnt matter, trans fluid seems fine, temps are great, shifting fine. I am thinking carrier bearing(2 peice shaft) going bad or a u joint possibly binding up under load. The entire shaft and joints are stock with 170,000 miles on them. The only concern and doubt I have about it not being something on the driveshaft is when putting it in neutral it makes no noise. Anyone have a clue as to what going on, I didnt have time to look at it this morning, took the car to work.
03-05-2011, 08:11 AM
#3
Thats what I was thinking, the load was off the shaft. I just replaced the fluid in the rear end a couple days ago, and the spider gears a couple weeks before that. I will pull the shaft tommorow morning, that carrier bearing is probably bad. I am going to go ahead and replace it anyway and the ujoints because they have some hard miles on them.
03-06-2011, 09:59 AM
#7
Update, jacked it up and checked it out. Looks like its going to be the pinion bearing. Also, the new spider gears I recently put in arent looking too good. One of them seems to be worn pretty bad already. Seems like the housing where it sits is worn causing some slack in the one.
Last edited by outlawz2004; 03-06-2011 at 10:05 AM.
