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I knew these were noise making, harder on drive train parts type lockers and having a manual transmission can magnify the noises and you feel a lot more if the backlash in the locker itself. I typically drive like Iam 80 years old anyway (on the street), I don't snatch second or just dump it to smoke the tires etc etc. so with my driving style discrption out of the way I'll proceed.
It makes its usual click click click with the occasional louder click/pop. I figure its in between teeth and the extra torque seats it's a little more harsh. The thing that keeps getting my attention it's the shake, jerk thing I get while I make a turn into a street or driveway. Kinda like Iam a new driver with a manual trans type jerk. Even if it starts doing the "huck-a-buck" pushing the clutch in won't stop it. Another odd thing I noticed Saturday was the truck feels like it wasn't to torque to the right when I take off from a stop, the rear of the truck wants to try to come around type feeling. I was in a decent hill at a red light and it was enought for to think I had loose u bolts or I had a broken center pin. Bolts are tight and I don't see any evidence that the pin is broken. Feels like your driving a welded diff and one gear has broken loose and the power is only going to one tire or how a go kart with out live axle feels on the street. I thought well maybe it's the tires, fresh deep tread and the lugs are giving and it just gives it a loose feeling...
Well I started Google searching this morning about lockright noise common and what may be uncommon. I ran across a few posts that brought up having a bent housing will cause these things to act crazy and some discribed things similar to what Iam feeling while others discribed the same but claimed it to be normal . It talked about tire wear being a good sign and the axles being hard to pull from the housing or hard to put back in the housing. Well I haven't ever noticed a strange wear pattern on the rear tires and I look at my tires a lot. When I swapped the third for the 4.56's and lockright the axles didn't put up any type of fight coming or going. I haven't had time to take it for a actual alignment yet for a half dozen other reasons but that will happen asap.
Anyone had this experience or anything similar? I'll also add in the clutch pedal pressure seems to feel deferent at times and if your at a red light with the truck in neutral with the clutch out I can feel the truck (drivetrain) bump forward when I put it back in gear to leave from a stop and at times I feel like it's sloppy shifting to second and third but I have been blaming that on a combination of the thick rubber floor mat finding it's way up under the clutch pedal and the goofy ass trip over everything square toe boots I wear. ( I don't wear them for fashion or becuse they are the style but becuse they were a crazy good eBay deal and have great toe room for my Fred flintstone feet, I actually hate these and will never buy more, also I will add in my pants are never ever ever tucked in my boots!) PO claims to have just done the clutch right before I bought it and the clutch master looks new but the fluid looks awful. Going to bleed the system today also going to chalk up the tires, roll it around on the driveway to see if the chalk wears off or shows any strange patterns. I have two bare wheels I could bolt up and try to get a measurement front to back, top and bottom. Kinda like checking the toe on the front. Maybe it's just normal and my mind loves to play the did you hear that? What was that noise game...
Thanks for any help and sorry it's such a long post but I figured any and all details would be important
It makes its usual click click click with the occasional louder click/pop. I figure its in between teeth and the extra torque seats it's a little more harsh. The thing that keeps getting my attention it's the shake, jerk thing I get while I make a turn into a street or driveway. Kinda like Iam a new driver with a manual trans type jerk. Even if it starts doing the "huck-a-buck" pushing the clutch in won't stop it. Another odd thing I noticed Saturday was the truck feels like it wasn't to torque to the right when I take off from a stop, the rear of the truck wants to try to come around type feeling. I was in a decent hill at a red light and it was enought for to think I had loose u bolts or I had a broken center pin. Bolts are tight and I don't see any evidence that the pin is broken. Feels like your driving a welded diff and one gear has broken loose and the power is only going to one tire or how a go kart with out live axle feels on the street. I thought well maybe it's the tires, fresh deep tread and the lugs are giving and it just gives it a loose feeling...
Well I started Google searching this morning about lockright noise common and what may be uncommon. I ran across a few posts that brought up having a bent housing will cause these things to act crazy and some discribed things similar to what Iam feeling while others discribed the same but claimed it to be normal . It talked about tire wear being a good sign and the axles being hard to pull from the housing or hard to put back in the housing. Well I haven't ever noticed a strange wear pattern on the rear tires and I look at my tires a lot. When I swapped the third for the 4.56's and lockright the axles didn't put up any type of fight coming or going. I haven't had time to take it for a actual alignment yet for a half dozen other reasons but that will happen asap.
Anyone had this experience or anything similar? I'll also add in the clutch pedal pressure seems to feel deferent at times and if your at a red light with the truck in neutral with the clutch out I can feel the truck (drivetrain) bump forward when I put it back in gear to leave from a stop and at times I feel like it's sloppy shifting to second and third but I have been blaming that on a combination of the thick rubber floor mat finding it's way up under the clutch pedal and the goofy ass trip over everything square toe boots I wear. ( I don't wear them for fashion or becuse they are the style but becuse they were a crazy good eBay deal and have great toe room for my Fred flintstone feet, I actually hate these and will never buy more, also I will add in my pants are never ever ever tucked in my boots!) PO claims to have just done the clutch right before I bought it and the clutch master looks new but the fluid looks awful. Going to bleed the system today also going to chalk up the tires, roll it around on the driveway to see if the chalk wears off or shows any strange patterns. I have two bare wheels I could bolt up and try to get a measurement front to back, top and bottom. Kinda like checking the toe on the front. Maybe it's just normal and my mind loves to play the did you hear that? What was that noise game...
Thanks for any help and sorry it's such a long post but I figured any and all details would be important