cntchds
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- 97 Mountaineer
I'm new here, and I'm hoping you guys can help me out.
My buddy has a 97 Mountaineer which he brought over last week because it had a scraping/knocking noise while he turned, braked, or accelerated. I automatically thought CV joint or wheel bearing. We just finished replacing the CV joint today, after the wheel bearing didn't help last week. (Both of which needed replacing anyway, just not the reason for the sound that we heard.)
After this attempt also failed at making the sound go away he decided to leave with the car this time, and it was the first time I had heard the car from the outside. It sounded like it came from behind the wheel, closer to the diff. so I waved him back over and asked him to drive in a circle around me so I could see if I could see anything visually wrong with it.
I couldn't see the instant of impact, but everytime it made the scrape sound the driveshaft would expose a part that had been scraped (picture to come.) I really can't figure out the why, though. It got dark, so he left before we could jack it up again to peak around, but I was wondering if anyone has a solution to make the scraping stop. My immediate thought was transmission mount messing with the pinion angle and doing something funky with the driveshaft, but I really don't know.
If you guys have any suggestions I would really appreciate it.
Thanks again!
My buddy has a 97 Mountaineer which he brought over last week because it had a scraping/knocking noise while he turned, braked, or accelerated. I automatically thought CV joint or wheel bearing. We just finished replacing the CV joint today, after the wheel bearing didn't help last week. (Both of which needed replacing anyway, just not the reason for the sound that we heard.)
After this attempt also failed at making the sound go away he decided to leave with the car this time, and it was the first time I had heard the car from the outside. It sounded like it came from behind the wheel, closer to the diff. so I waved him back over and asked him to drive in a circle around me so I could see if I could see anything visually wrong with it.
I couldn't see the instant of impact, but everytime it made the scrape sound the driveshaft would expose a part that had been scraped (picture to come.) I really can't figure out the why, though. It got dark, so he left before we could jack it up again to peak around, but I was wondering if anyone has a solution to make the scraping stop. My immediate thought was transmission mount messing with the pinion angle and doing something funky with the driveshaft, but I really don't know.
If you guys have any suggestions I would really appreciate it.
Thanks again!