Hello fellow rovers,
My 96 disco will on ocassion make a clunk durling deceleration. it happens between on slowing from
20 mph-0 mph. (clunking out of 2nd?)
Im wondering how to correct this.

Thinking drive shaft issues
- u joints
- shaft copeing
- suspension

My suspension is fairly tired so i was leaning to braking/suspension compression physics causing this.........


167k new trans and running pretty
235/75/16 Hancook ATM


thanks in advance

 

I looked into it a while back and found a lot of posts about drivetrain/tranny slack and ignored it from then on out. Interested for additional thoughts though.

 

Radius arm bushings most likely. Possibly panhard bushings. I had the same problem and it was the radius arm bushings on the axle.

 

A shot U joint did it for me. Would clunk on accel sometimes too though

 

A soft tire does it for me.

 

If your U-joints are bad, you will probably be able to crawl under the truck and move the driveshafts by hand. (Not turning, a little bit of that is normal, but you'll actually feel them move up & down, side to side.) If it's bad enough you can actually see it.

 

U joints look good. I'm very worried that this could hurt my new trans. My transfer case only works in 4high and that's it. I had a tech (over the phone) tell me it could be backlash from a bad dif or transfer case. Do bad drive shafts cause a problem like this?
I really don't want to get stranded and be screwed with an expensive dif repair. I'm just hoping for solution by changing my dif and tcase fluid.
I'd really appreciate any more input. Not really a live with it kind of clunk....


Thanks

 

I don't see a diff causing it but it could be slack in the t/c. Id go with 85/140 gear oil. I'm very pleased with it in my diffs. Still have to do the t/c.

 

Have you checked the radius arm bushings at the frame and axle?

 

u joints or slack in rears added to slack in the transfer case mine was bad ujoint at the t case front d shaft