Rear End Clunk

[james accordino]

My 89 200 makes the same noise.  About 270k.  I did
change the seals and goo at 180k?.  My truck does the
same only much worse.  Tranny also.  Do the quat rear
diffs break?  Anybody break one or know of someone
breaking one?

Jim Accordino

--- "Robert M. Shydo Jr." <rms29 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> Been getting a clunk in the rear of the 5kqt on
> transition from coasting
> to power and vice versa since shortly after I got
> the car.  Thought it
> would be a loose rear subframe bushing, but after
> crawling under the car
> and playing with stuff that doesn't seem to be the
> case.  In gear with the
> parking brake engaged, the shaft will turn about 15
> degrees then stop.
> U-joints are fine.  When driving hard, the sounds
> almost is like hitting
> an aluminum baseball bat with a rock.  Thinking it
> must be the rear diff?
>
> Rob
>
>
>


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