weird rearend problem
10-30-2005, 11:53 AM
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weird rearend problem My car was wrecked back in july, and it sat in the shop getting fixed for months (I was helping mybody guy who also happens to be a friend, to save some money on insurance costs) , all the damage was from the front of the motor forward, no actual motor damage, 1 dead shock tower and tons of cosmetic. We fixed everything, but now I've noticed a rear end problem...
So I got my car back and noticed a small tap (almost the sound of a baseball card in bike spokes, only metal to metal and much deeper)
mostly when I stopped, but recently I heard a single louder tap, going about 60 down the highway, and now it's rattling bad enough to hit my pro 5.0, (which causes obnoxious amounts of noise as you can imagine
) I checked the pinion gear and u joints, both are in good shape, so I took it to my mechanic and he said the sound is more than likely coming from the rear end it self.
My mechanic says it probably chipped a tooth off the spider gear and it's causing it to miss, so am I looking at a dead rear end or just new gears? I'm going to try to get insurance to pay for it in the case that they do, it's a 9" of course, but if they don't, I may have to just put gears in it, as this is my daily driver.
Any thoughts?
So I got my car back and noticed a small tap (almost the sound of a baseball card in bike spokes, only metal to metal and much deeper)
mostly when I stopped, but recently I heard a single louder tap, going about 60 down the highway, and now it's rattling bad enough to hit my pro 5.0, (which causes obnoxious amounts of noise as you can imagine
) I checked the pinion gear and u joints, both are in good shape, so I took it to my mechanic and he said the sound is more than likely coming from the rear end it self.My mechanic says it probably chipped a tooth off the spider gear and it's causing it to miss, so am I looking at a dead rear end or just new gears? I'm going to try to get insurance to pay for it in the case that they do, it's a 9" of course, but if they don't, I may have to just put gears in it, as this is my daily driver.
Any thoughts?
