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Offline cwilson jr

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Issue At Wheel(s)
« on: August 04, 2015, 06:43:12 pm »
I have an 85 K10 with a 305 auto.

I started hearing a clanging sound coming from the right side of the vehicle a while back.  Im not sure at all, but if i had to guess, i would say it seems like the front.  It almost sounds like a chain rattiling.  I notice it most, if not in its entirety while at slower speeds.  This is probably just because I can't hear it while cruising.

Also, while parallel parking, there is something going on with one of the wheels, I notice this while cutting the wheel and trying to backup,  there is a loud chirping/squealing and I feel what I would call wheel hop and makes it more difficult then it needs to be.

I hardly use 4wheel, but I put it in the other day to see hiw it is and the wheel hop and steering seem awful, but the 4wheel still seems to be functioning, and after I did this, it seems like the issues previously mentioned, got worse/louder.  Not sure.
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Offline zieg85

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Re: Issue At Wheel(s)
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2015, 06:49:32 pm »
Front axle u-joints bind and cause all kinds of noise when bad
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Re: Issue At Wheel(s)
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2015, 09:10:52 pm »
yep.........wat he said
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Re: Issue At Wheel(s)
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2015, 02:25:15 pm »
I am going to look into the u-joint and probably replace it, and as far as the wheel "chirping", I think this is a seperate issue. I noticed not even just while parking, but in park, when i cut the wheel sharply to one side, and maybe both, there is a loud squealing/chirping sound coming from the front driver's wheel and continues while in that position until i would turn it back slightly.  (There is contact point, to where everything is fine and the loud squealing/chirping begins.)

Does this sound like the wheel bearing?  I thought that would be something I noticed while driving.  I jacked the problem side up and the wheel MIGHT have moved a hair.  I have 4-wheel with auto lockers.

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Re: Issue At Wheel(s)
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2015, 08:28:48 pm »
The squealing while turning isn't the belt is it?
The snapping noise is most probably an axle joint. By the sounds of it you have let it go a while. Good chance the axles are wrecked now too.
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Re: Issue At Wheel(s)
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2015, 09:01:40 am »
take the lockers off and see what it does but dont drive on a dirt road. sounds like theyre locked
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