what is this noise??
 

i decided to go out for a drive tonight and about 3 miles from home i statred hering a clunking sound. I turned down the radio so as to to try to here ware exactly ware it was comeing from or what it could be. from my determinatin it is come in from the rear half and only clunks wile cousteng. as i drove home it got worse but i cant figuer out what exactly it is any ideas?

rear end?

if it was the rear end wouldent it lock up ? it drives fine less a little vibration, its definetly in the drive line though

u joint

thats what im thinkinbut with it bein dark and the side pipes hot i really wasent all into crawlin under there

Do you have a posi-track rear end? You need to replace the gear oil and include the posi additive.

no i dont think that is it ill just look in to it in the morning

If it has a 2 piece driveline sounds like mine did with a bad center carrier.

Just had a similar problem with mine......ended up being the carrier bearing letting loose.....get it checked before you do real damage....JMHO

real damage :( yea thats no joke i just shivvied under the truck this morning and statred poking and proding around and the rear end cheaked out ok, looked in to the cv joints and yup, okey dokie so whats next the tranny! Oh my freakin godd ?!?!?! :barf: the bolts are gone! the 2 bottom bolts from the bell housing to the sag 4spd had gone someware so i pull one of the verry lose top bolts to get the correct thread pitch and size to replace them and lowe and behold those 2 holes were all wallared and striped out. luckly the replacement bolts came with nuts and i had pleanty of clearance to install em on the back side with some lock tite then i put a bead of tourq-loc from the center out so i can see if they are backing out later on down the road

Ouch!

maannnn, no one woulda ever guessed it was yout tranny fallin out. :crazy:

is this the full covered cast iron housing or the later aluminum one? if needed I have 1 of each hanging in the garage