Well I never had this be an issue before so I recorded it to share my adventure,.....
I was just driving down the road in Hanford, heading to see my Grandkids at Derek's House......When all of the sudden POW,...Jerk,....clank, clank, clank, clank,.....etc.etc....I pulled into the Walgreens Parking lot to see what had happened. Did not see any visible damage, no leakage, every appeared fine. Thought by chance that I run over something that stuck in my tires?.....I moved the truck around in the parking lot and it did have a clank, clank, clank coming from the rear axle........Bummers Right?.
So, I drove it to Derek's house at <40 mph and thought about what it could be. I just changed my diff gear oil back in October and it looked good. never had the diff cover off because my axle has a low drain plug at the bottom of the housing. No one had been into the housing that I know of ever......
So, this morning I got it up on blocks, rotated it to hear the noise,...this is the 1st Video of 6.
You need high speed internet to load video's.....
Talk about missing the obvious........LOL
Pics of the damaged Pinion Gear.
I was just driving down the road in Hanford, heading to see my Grandkids at Derek's House......When all of the sudden POW,...Jerk,....clank, clank, clank, clank,.....etc.etc....I pulled into the Walgreens Parking lot to see what had happened. Did not see any visible damage, no leakage, every appeared fine. Thought by chance that I run over something that stuck in my tires?.....I moved the truck around in the parking lot and it did have a clank, clank, clank coming from the rear axle........Bummers Right?.
So, I drove it to Derek's house at <40 mph and thought about what it could be. I just changed my diff gear oil back in October and it looked good. never had the diff cover off because my axle has a low drain plug at the bottom of the housing. No one had been into the housing that I know of ever......
So, this morning I got it up on blocks, rotated it to hear the noise,...this is the 1st Video of 6.
You need high speed internet to load video's.....
Talk about missing the obvious........LOL
Pics of the damaged Pinion Gear.