Folks,
Thanks for all your suggestions, it seems like the diff center section
should come out at least to check the excessive free play and change the
pinion seal. I have a LH bent axle anyway making the wheel wobble so can
change that since I have my spare rear end dissasembled. "while I am there"
I can do the driveshaft U joint, although it feels pretty good to me and I
think I did change it years ago when the trans was done.
I will do the work in a month or so and will keep you posted.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-healeys@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Freese, Ken
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 3:02 PM
To: 'healeys'
Subject: rear end growl continued
Over the weekend, the rear end was probed with a stethoscope both on jack
stands in 4th at 30mph and while driving around with one rear seat removed.
We never really heard the growl on the jackstands. All the bearings seemed
to emit a nice whir including the OD rear.
We did notice a clickety clack noise that seemed to come from the diff and
that there was almost 1/4 inch rotational slack at the pinion flange while
my spare diff is more like .030!
While driving with the rear seat removed, we did hear the growl similar to
the normal 1st gear whine only of a different lower pitch. Most evident when
starting up a hill in 2nd. I don't hear it in 1st, but maybe the normal
whine masks it. I also think I hear it in 3rd under a low rpm load.
So maybe it is a transmission issue that I didn't hear on the jackstands
because I was in 4th direct?
Ken Freese
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