The other day when I went to drive the truck, I put it in gear and heard something clank in the rear. I didn't think too much about it but as I was driving, I periodically could hear a metallic sound coming from somewhere, but I thought it might be the large floor jack that was in the bed.
I drove it around more that day and every time I went from park to drive or reverse, I would get a loud clank. When you first take off you can hear a metallic sound for several seconds and it goes away. I got under the truck and tried moving the driveshaft around first in park to see if maybe the Ujoints were loose but there were no movement from them. In neutral you can hear some noise at the rear end and inside the transfer case when turning the driveshaft by hand.
I put the rear of the truck up on jackstands with the front wheels blocked and ran it in gear and could hear a slight noise at the rear end and nothing at the transfer case but nothing metallic sounding on either. Truck has a little over 122,000 miles on it.
Does anyone know if there are any weak areas on these 14 bolt full floater rear ends or the Borg Warner transfer cases? I have an appointment in a few weeks to get it looked at. One guy that listened to it when I put it in gear and heard the loud clank says it's the pinion but the shop owner who is going to be looking at it said that bad pinion bearings have a whine sound more so than what I'm hearing. I've had bad pinion and carrier bearings in the rearend of my 98 Chevy 1500 with the 10 bolt and it didn't sound anything like what this truck sounds like and did have a large whine.
I drove it around more that day and every time I went from park to drive or reverse, I would get a loud clank. When you first take off you can hear a metallic sound for several seconds and it goes away. I got under the truck and tried moving the driveshaft around first in park to see if maybe the Ujoints were loose but there were no movement from them. In neutral you can hear some noise at the rear end and inside the transfer case when turning the driveshaft by hand.
I put the rear of the truck up on jackstands with the front wheels blocked and ran it in gear and could hear a slight noise at the rear end and nothing at the transfer case but nothing metallic sounding on either. Truck has a little over 122,000 miles on it.
Does anyone know if there are any weak areas on these 14 bolt full floater rear ends or the Borg Warner transfer cases? I have an appointment in a few weeks to get it looked at. One guy that listened to it when I put it in gear and heard the loud clank says it's the pinion but the shop owner who is going to be looking at it said that bad pinion bearings have a whine sound more so than what I'm hearing. I've had bad pinion and carrier bearings in the rearend of my 98 Chevy 1500 with the 10 bolt and it didn't sound anything like what this truck sounds like and did have a large whine.