Clunk Sound
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Clunk Sound In my previous post, I stated I heard a strange noise and felt a jerk when I was making a turn at the light. Tonight the same thing happened again. This time I heard "clunk clunk". Anyone have an idea what is causing this? It's obviously something in the rear end. I was able to drive home, but felt a serious loss in power. This sucks! All input appreciated.
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What about ... Dropped a C-Clip (U did just have new gears installed) When U turn the axle moves in and out. Friend U need to look inside of the rear end I would hate to read about U being killed from flipping or slinging an axle.
Post another post about this in the Texas section someone might be close enough to come over to help U look into this. Most of the Texas people sound like a great bunch and very helpfull!
<small>[ May 18, 2002, 08:36 AM: Message edited by: 2000 Camaro SS ]</small>
What about ... Dropped a C-Clip (U did just have new gears installed) When U turn the axle moves in and out. Friend U need to look inside of the rear end I would hate to read about U being killed from flipping or slinging an axle.
Post another post about this in the Texas section someone might be close enough to come over to help U look into this. Most of the Texas people sound like a great bunch and very helpfull!
<small>[ May 18, 2002, 08:36 AM: Message edited by: 2000 Camaro SS ]</small>
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Re: Clunk Sound The gears were installed two months ago, then installed again a month ago. They were not set up correctly the first time, and they weren't set up correctly the second time either. The shop that installed them, also put a non-synthetic 85w140 fluid in, and two tubes of limited slip instead of one. I drained the fluid after the second install and put in 75W90 synthetic with limited slip additive. I don't know what the hell the shop did to it after the second install, but it's far worse then it was after the first time. I maybe walking here soon. Don't have the money to buy a new set of gears and have an install done right this minute.
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Re: Clunk Sound As far as opening the cover and looking at the differential goes, my first question is, will I have to take off the rear sway bar to open the cover? It is extremely close to the cover. Once I get it open, what's the first thing I should check? My apologies for all the questions, i'm trying to learn more about rearends and want to find out what is wrong with this thing.
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Re: Clunk Sound Thanks for the input. I'll get this looked at asap. As far as driving my car, I'm trying not to anymore than I need to. I hate to have to park it, but may have to before too long. Broke <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" /> . No pun intended.
