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Josparkz
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I can't say my truck quit without warning. I had a little warning. Very little.
Tuesday afternoon I noticed I was getting a little whining kind of noise. It sounded sort of like my exhaust brake. I was pulling a trailer and had just come through from the car wash so I wasn't too alarmed.
Last night I went out a little, maybe 20 miles, and I'm starting to hear this noise again, sometimes. I get to playing to see which gear it's in, whether it is under load, etc. I see it seems to only happen with the overdrive locked out. Hmm. Maybe I got a third gear noise, I thought.
I checked my tires, and fluids today. Found nothing amiss.
Went to town, about 2 miles. I'm heading home and make an easy left turn from a stop. I feel/hear a big snap, and I've got a hellacious racket going on. I thought I had snapped a driveline and was dragging it.
I get through the intersection and pull over on the side of this overpass I'm heading for and get out. No drivelines hanging, motor running fine in park. I put it in D and get going, real slow. All kinds of banging noises and the truck doesn't hardly want to go. I try reverse, same deal.
I'm wondering if my air locker failed and it's something like that. I start shifting the transfer case, I seem to have all the functions. I put it back into 2Hi and I notice that I'm getting all this gear crash shifting between gears (like when your linkage is off), and it doesn't really want to go. I guess this kind of rules out a grenaded locker then, eh?
So I put it into 4 Lo and get going real slow. It seemed to make the least amount of noise and went the best. I was really wanting to get off the overpass by now, and didn't live but maybe a 1/4 mile. I figured what ever was done was done so I limped it home.
Crawled underneath it, couldn't see anything amiss. The transmission fluid smelled maybe a little burned on the dipstick.
It was about dark by then, so I didn't pursue it.
I'm still trying to figure if it would be the transfer case or the transmission. (this is where a divorced transfer case would be real handy).
I guess I'm going to start sticking a magnet into oil holes in things first, see if I can find some shrapnel in there. In case I don't, does this scenario sound (unfortunately) familiar to anyone?
I sure like to figure out what the culprit is before I either start jacking and blocking and dropping drivelines, or pulling off oilpans.
Either way, it had that REAL expensive sound to it.
Tuesday afternoon I noticed I was getting a little whining kind of noise. It sounded sort of like my exhaust brake. I was pulling a trailer and had just come through from the car wash so I wasn't too alarmed.
Last night I went out a little, maybe 20 miles, and I'm starting to hear this noise again, sometimes. I get to playing to see which gear it's in, whether it is under load, etc. I see it seems to only happen with the overdrive locked out. Hmm. Maybe I got a third gear noise, I thought.
I checked my tires, and fluids today. Found nothing amiss.
Went to town, about 2 miles. I'm heading home and make an easy left turn from a stop. I feel/hear a big snap, and I've got a hellacious racket going on. I thought I had snapped a driveline and was dragging it.
I get through the intersection and pull over on the side of this overpass I'm heading for and get out. No drivelines hanging, motor running fine in park. I put it in D and get going, real slow. All kinds of banging noises and the truck doesn't hardly want to go. I try reverse, same deal.
I'm wondering if my air locker failed and it's something like that. I start shifting the transfer case, I seem to have all the functions. I put it back into 2Hi and I notice that I'm getting all this gear crash shifting between gears (like when your linkage is off), and it doesn't really want to go. I guess this kind of rules out a grenaded locker then, eh?
So I put it into 4 Lo and get going real slow. It seemed to make the least amount of noise and went the best. I was really wanting to get off the overpass by now, and didn't live but maybe a 1/4 mile. I figured what ever was done was done so I limped it home.
Crawled underneath it, couldn't see anything amiss. The transmission fluid smelled maybe a little burned on the dipstick.
It was about dark by then, so I didn't pursue it.
I'm still trying to figure if it would be the transfer case or the transmission. (this is where a divorced transfer case would be real handy).
I guess I'm going to start sticking a magnet into oil holes in things first, see if I can find some shrapnel in there. In case I don't, does this scenario sound (unfortunately) familiar to anyone?
I sure like to figure out what the culprit is before I either start jacking and blocking and dropping drivelines, or pulling off oilpans.
Either way, it had that REAL expensive sound to it.
