Hello friends
Here is another crazy situation with my Truck; DII ?01 SE7, ACE, SLS with 78K miles.
I asked my indi guy (which I trust very much) to rebuild the front drive shaft for the reasons that we all know, I printed this great write up that someone put on the Internet with all parts and procedures to follow. One of my guy mechanics did not follow any of my suggestions and proceed to rebuild the shaft with greaseable u-joins I believe from a Range Rover but did not replace the ball centering kit.
They test drove the truck but when I picked it up on my way back to work about 12 miles away I started to hear this clicking noise and I barely made it up the hill by my job. Worried I drove the truck on the parking lot and on every turn the noise (clicking) was stronger and I can barely pick up speed. Somehow I drove very slow and eventually made it to back to the shop. Obviously something came loose inside the double cardan in the rear of the shaft. My guy installed a loaner shaft while mine was rebuilt and have been driving for quite some time without a problem until this past weekend.
Once again they put back my original drive shaft with the new u-joins but they took the centering kit from the loaner driveshaft. Here is my dilemma, I don?t know if my mind is playing games with my head but after the initial incident I have been very nervous about this whole situation. I could swear that when my truck reaches 50MPH I hear this ?growling? noise, there is no vibration and no hesitation except for the noise between 50-65MPH; above that speed kind of goes away or maybe I cannot hear it. Everything seems to be fine; the only other factor that changed is that my Nitto tires were rotated after 10K, but not the usual rotation of rear to front on each side but rear to front across. I don?t know friends, I trust my guy and his team; they have always been there for me on every occasion. This whole thing is driving me nuts so much that I am ready to order me a Tom Woods driveshaft.
What should I do? As always thanks for your responses.
Figman
Here is another crazy situation with my Truck; DII ?01 SE7, ACE, SLS with 78K miles.
I asked my indi guy (which I trust very much) to rebuild the front drive shaft for the reasons that we all know, I printed this great write up that someone put on the Internet with all parts and procedures to follow. One of my guy mechanics did not follow any of my suggestions and proceed to rebuild the shaft with greaseable u-joins I believe from a Range Rover but did not replace the ball centering kit.
They test drove the truck but when I picked it up on my way back to work about 12 miles away I started to hear this clicking noise and I barely made it up the hill by my job. Worried I drove the truck on the parking lot and on every turn the noise (clicking) was stronger and I can barely pick up speed. Somehow I drove very slow and eventually made it to back to the shop. Obviously something came loose inside the double cardan in the rear of the shaft. My guy installed a loaner shaft while mine was rebuilt and have been driving for quite some time without a problem until this past weekend.
Once again they put back my original drive shaft with the new u-joins but they took the centering kit from the loaner driveshaft. Here is my dilemma, I don?t know if my mind is playing games with my head but after the initial incident I have been very nervous about this whole situation. I could swear that when my truck reaches 50MPH I hear this ?growling? noise, there is no vibration and no hesitation except for the noise between 50-65MPH; above that speed kind of goes away or maybe I cannot hear it. Everything seems to be fine; the only other factor that changed is that my Nitto tires were rotated after 10K, but not the usual rotation of rear to front on each side but rear to front across. I don?t know friends, I trust my guy and his team; they have always been there for me on every occasion. This whole thing is driving me nuts so much that I am ready to order me a Tom Woods driveshaft.
What should I do? As always thanks for your responses.
Figman
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