That sound you hear is most likely your front driveshaft splines getting ready to strip where it goes into the transfer cast! I would suggest doing your research and getting it done before it leaves you stranded in the middle of an intersection like happened to me last month! Lot's of info here and elsewhere on this subject. I would encourage you to keep it simple and just have the longer spline solution done. Lot's of people make this a lunar moon landing project, it doesn't need to be. But, get it done sooner than later.
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Originally Posted by Henn28
That’s a testament to having the right tools to make a job go well LA02MAX. And since you are just on the other side of the lake from me, maybe I can rent the lot of them from you when the time comes to do my wheel bearings!
I went out to the garage I belong to today and put the X on the lift for an oil and transfer case fluid change. Third oil batch of oil in the new motor, which has about 6600 mi on it now. The batch I replaced had about 5k on it and was dark, but the motor had only used about an 1/8 of a cup of oil in that time.
With the oil cooler I put on I t takes a hair under 9 quarts of oil and it took maybe 2/3 of a quart of what I Found as the backwards comparable (to III) Dexteon fluid for the transfer case at auto zone. The fluid that came out of the Xfer case wasn’t red, but the dextron certainly was going in. I don’t ever recall doing that job before in 20 year. Which is shameful. It may have been done when I had the remanufactured tranny put in, but who knows.
After a bit of searching and head scratching, I suspect the very bright “ping” I hear when moving from drive to reverse might be the rear driveshaft U joint. I can’t feel play in it, but it really seems like the sound the driveshaft makes when you flick it with your finger, and I don’t know what else might make it when torque is applied. Unfortunately new driveshafts are expensive, and I’m not sure if that joint can be rebuilt.
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