rear end clunk

[no1of consequence]

mine made a very similar clunk that turned out to be the center support
bearing. clunky on + off power.. eventually turned into a constant
'thunk-thunk-thunk..' under pwr that would stop as soon as i disengaged the
clutch as the tear in the rubber got bigger.

-jim

>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?

_________________________________________________________________
Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage.
http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es