any idea's?
Driveline noise wtf?
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called the local driveline shop he said the aluminum gets stressed and will make that noise, not completely sold on that but sounds like the most reasonable explanation.
Jason in DLH
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Never heard anything like it. Crazy, yo! I bet you can hear it clearly in the cab and it drives you nuts!
I’ll be interested to see what it turns out to be.
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another video, lot of wind noise but at 1:28-2:10 you can hear it and again at 4:00
That would drive me nuts.
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Kinda sounds like a ujoint... but a bad one usually sounds like that crunching / moving by hand, not when installed. I’d probably drop my driveshaft to feel all the joints.
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Hopefully this isn’t as elusive as that annoying body creak I have was.
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Is it for sure coming from specifically the driveshaft? You sure it's not just acting as a speaker, resonating something in front of or after it?
The explanation from the driveshaft shop is a thing but I've never heard of that happening on anything but a drag race car and it was because the shaft was piecing apart inside due to being abused relentlessly by a 800 HP car on slicks.
I'd lean more towards U-joints to start and I wouldn't be afraid to pull that driveshaft and check the pinion, maybe even open up the differential to get a look and see if any metal has chipped off.
The explanation from the driveshaft shop is a thing but I've never heard of that happening on anything but a drag race car and it was because the shaft was piecing apart inside due to being abused relentlessly by a 800 HP car on slicks.
I'd lean more towards U-joints to start and I wouldn't be afraid to pull that driveshaft and check the pinion, maybe even open up the differential to get a look and see if any metal has chipped off.
swathdiver
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Put the stethoscope on the driveshaft and tail shaft of the trans. I'm thinking u-joint too or a chipped tooth or spline. Shouldn't be anything in the driveshaft tube but that cardboard but what if a booger weld fell off and started bouncing around? The test for that is to put the driveshaft on a driveshaft balancer and spin it up.
Jason in DLH
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I’m glad you didn’t drop your phone. Although...it certainly would have given me a chuckle.
I had a rear U-Joint break on me once (on a ‘93 Wrangler) with no signs that it was failing. The driveshaft ended up whipping around beating everything up. It was rather amusing. It was a I-6 and I pulled the muffler and put dual exhaust on, so maybe I simply couldn’t hear that ticking noise that you have.
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While I have never heard anything like that before, I'm inclined to think it is universal joint related, rather than driveshaft related.
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if this was the case I would think the noise would be centered around a u-joint then but this noise is coming from the shaft, which is why I moved the camera from end to end to see if the noise was more at one end than the other.
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i'm going to pull it out thursday and go from there
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I had a pretty good grip on my phone lolI’m glad you didn’t drop your phone. Although...it certainly would have given me a chuckle.
I had a rear U-Joint break on me once (on a ‘93 Wrangler) with no signs that it was failing. The driveshaft ended up whipping around beating everything up. It was rather amusing. It was a I-6 and I pulled the muffler and put dual exhaust on, so maybe I simply couldn’t hear that ticking noise that you have.
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thank you for everyone's input, it was the U-joints both ends were fried, replaced and noise is gone.
this was at 160k on a 2005
this was at 160k on a 2005
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Glad that you found the source and fixed it. The hollow drive shaft must have worked kind of like a speaker, and projected the noise all along it, thus giving you the noise all along it, when you were checking it out to find the source.
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exactly what I thinking, still weird as hell lol
