On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:49:18 -0400, Michael Maskalans <dml@tepidcola.com>
wrote:
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>
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Dan Kramarsky wrote:
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>> the tranny mount is new. tranny was replaced last year. but i will
>> look at it again.
>>
>> the u-joints were replaced at that time as well.
>>
>> i am thinking it could be the intermediate steering shaft. or front
>> suspension.
>>
>>
> The steering shaft would be my first thought - either play in the slip
> joint (I need to figure out how to rebuild that part of mine - when I
> took
> the shaft apart I could not get it back together without breaking the
> nylon/ teflon/ delrin/ plastic/ whatever thing in there in the slip area)
> or a bad u-joint. That u-joint is non-replacable, nobody I checked with
> (FleetPride, NAPA, Advance, Auto Zone) had any joints that small.
>
> I cut the yokes off the shaft and welded on yokes from the smallest
> implement u-joint that Tractor Supply sells and fixed my shaft for I
> think
> around $60 instead of replacing it for over $300. I need to find some
> brass shims to put in the slip joint portion at some point though, I do
> have some slop in there.
>
My truck makes this noise as well. I told my mechanic about it. He poked
around and didn't see anything wrong. Suggested the slip joint and said
that his vehicle does that as well. I think he said he greases it up and
it stops. It's been a long time since he told me so I'm not sure if that's
what he said. He said it was no big deal.
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