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Originally Posted by epdarks
Thanks for your input. It's really not the noise that's bothering me, it's the slack. If I drive it, it's no issue, as I am more careful on and off the throttle. But if I mash the gas from a stop I will get a nice "clunk" which makes be believe my splines are stripping?
@dinane39
Trans mounts were done about 30k miles ago with the new transmission. Engine mounts may be original though, I didn't suspect the mounts to be bad, so I will look closer now, thanks.
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That is exactly the same simptoms i had. When my Indy told me that is caused by the rear drive shaft I thought I knew better because most of the people here did the front drive haft and the chain. So, I did as I mentioned earlier the front shaft thinking the same as you do and then the chain. I spent a few hundred on the shaft and a hundred on the chain and the final option was the rear drive shaft. The splines on the front shaft were worn out but the noise didn't go away after replacing the drive shaft and even later with a good transfer case with perfect splines and new chain. I put my money on the rear drive shaft.
You can check the front splines easily. It shouldn't take you more than 15-30 minutes. Unfortunately I don't know a way to test the rear driveshaft. Although I replaced the faulty component wasn't obvious it had a play. You need quite a bit of force to generate that clunk noise.
If you want to rebuild the TC you can find all the parts you need and it is very easy to do it while it's out. I used cobratransmission.com
The play you find can be combined from all the components in the drive line but in mine it went away by replacing the rear shaft. I also had play in the axels and getting new axels didn't do much...