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- West Virginia
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1993 2dr
several weeks ago, after our first good snow i went out and had a little fun in my 97 awd. nothing too bad, just a few donuts.. i know donuts are bad, to eat and to do in vehicles.
a couple days after i noticed a humm coming from the front of the vehicle, kind of sounded like the noise new chunky tread ATs or MTs make. a few days later it went away. I jacked up the vehicle and noticed i had alot of snow packed in the wheels still, cleaned that out and everything seemed to be fine.
well a couple days ago i was on the interstate (i work in my town now so i rarely travel on the interstate anymore) and bout 10 miles in to the 20 mile trip the noise came back, louder, intermittent, howling.. sounded like a wheel bearing.
can a wheel bearing noise be intermittent like this? while chaning my oil prior to this i did not notice any leaking of the diff, no fluids dripping, nothing bound up. the noise does not sound like the noise a gear driven component (t-case or diff) would make. last night i noticed the noise again, but i cant/wont crawl under neath my car on frozen concrete in -10 degree weather to look, i might be frozen to the ground and never come back!
i did some searching and read some threads about unbalanced or worn front driveshafts making a noise, but it isnt as much of a vibration/unbalanced feel as much as it is a howling humm noise. the vehicle is being dropped off at a trusted mechanics tomorrow night so he can put it up in a heated garage on a lift and look at a few things. is there anything else that i should be looking for?
any help is appreciated guys!
Jack
oh.. to top it all off. ups dropped my sway bar endlinks off at some random location in my neighborhood and i cant find them. and they do not have a cust. service number that isnt automated. hopefully my brother picked them up on his way to the lake, otherwise im gonna be po'd. i was hoping to install them sunday on my 93 so i can drive it while the 97 is down. stupid ups.
a couple days after i noticed a humm coming from the front of the vehicle, kind of sounded like the noise new chunky tread ATs or MTs make. a few days later it went away. I jacked up the vehicle and noticed i had alot of snow packed in the wheels still, cleaned that out and everything seemed to be fine.
well a couple days ago i was on the interstate (i work in my town now so i rarely travel on the interstate anymore) and bout 10 miles in to the 20 mile trip the noise came back, louder, intermittent, howling.. sounded like a wheel bearing.
can a wheel bearing noise be intermittent like this? while chaning my oil prior to this i did not notice any leaking of the diff, no fluids dripping, nothing bound up. the noise does not sound like the noise a gear driven component (t-case or diff) would make. last night i noticed the noise again, but i cant/wont crawl under neath my car on frozen concrete in -10 degree weather to look, i might be frozen to the ground and never come back!
i did some searching and read some threads about unbalanced or worn front driveshafts making a noise, but it isnt as much of a vibration/unbalanced feel as much as it is a howling humm noise. the vehicle is being dropped off at a trusted mechanics tomorrow night so he can put it up in a heated garage on a lift and look at a few things. is there anything else that i should be looking for?
any help is appreciated guys!
Jack
oh.. to top it all off. ups dropped my sway bar endlinks off at some random location in my neighborhood and i cant find them. and they do not have a cust. service number that isnt automated. hopefully my brother picked them up on his way to the lake, otherwise im gonna be po'd. i was hoping to install them sunday on my 93 so i can drive it while the 97 is down. stupid ups.
