Re: Whine from rear end?

From: Michael Clark (dml@mikesdakota.com)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 19:23:03 EDT


  
> Well, I'm here at Carlisle. On the way here though I started to
> notice a strange whine coming from the truck. I heard it a couple
> of times on the way down but really noticed it after I was in Carlisle
> driving with the windows down. It increases in pitch with speed.
> Putting the tranny in neutral doesn't eliminate the noise, though it
> does seem to be louder if I leave it in gear while decelerating.

> My brake shoes weren't abnormally hot, my rearend fluid is up to
> the hole, and none of my u-joints are loose. The driveshaft does
> move a little bit, but its rotating at the tranny and the rearend,
> not at the u-joints. (is that normal?)

> Anyway, does anyone have any ideas as to what might be wrong or
> what to check? This is a noise that I haven't noticed before.
> Just hoping the truck holds together since I'm 350 miles from home...

> Thanks!

Jon my friend's z28 made a noise kinda like that
recently. He had two teeth broken in the ring gear...

--Mike
www.mikesdakota.com



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