Front or Rear?
#1
Front or Rear?
OK. I'm going to go home and do this tonight unless some one screams NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and gives a compelling reason not to.
I need to isolate a drive line problem. I can't tell if it in the front or rear or if it is the TC. I'm going to take off the rear drive shaft and drive a little bit. See if that gets rid of the rumbling and shaking. If it doesn't, I am going to do the same but with the front. This is a 2002 D2 with 188K miles. I replaced the front shaft already. Neither shaft looks/feels/behaves like it is the culprit. With this exersize I hope to determine if it a bearing on either end of either the front or rear shaft, or if it is the TC. When I have crawled underneath and shook everything I could get my hands on I couldn't find anything with play. The flex plate looks old but is not the culprit (I have experience with those). The rumbling and vibrating has been intermittent but has gotten worse the last week.
So am I about to cause irreparable damage? Or am I going to find the source of my problem?
I need to isolate a drive line problem. I can't tell if it in the front or rear or if it is the TC. I'm going to take off the rear drive shaft and drive a little bit. See if that gets rid of the rumbling and shaking. If it doesn't, I am going to do the same but with the front. This is a 2002 D2 with 188K miles. I replaced the front shaft already. Neither shaft looks/feels/behaves like it is the culprit. With this exersize I hope to determine if it a bearing on either end of either the front or rear shaft, or if it is the TC. When I have crawled underneath and shook everything I could get my hands on I couldn't find anything with play. The flex plate looks old but is not the culprit (I have experience with those). The rumbling and vibrating has been intermittent but has gotten worse the last week.
So am I about to cause irreparable damage? Or am I going to find the source of my problem?
#2
You won't cause any damage, but you won't find your solution either. The 2002 did not come with a locking transfer case, so unless you have retroffited one then the output shaft without a driveshaft will just sit and spin and you won't move anywhere. I'd start with the front shaft. Drop it and do a bench inspection for any stiffness/friction or looseness in the joints. Hell, might even have one seized that you wouldn't be able to tell from under the truck without dropping the shaft.
#7
Turns out I didn't need to wait to find out the Main issue. The rear Joint of the front shaft disintegrated and left me stranded. It didn't completely come apart but it was not drive-able. Now, I have a shaft ordered and will install that. What other damage has been done and what would you good folks recommend? Bearings on either end of that shaft?
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