I'm noticing a click almost everytime I take my foot off the accelerator pedal after accelaration (sounds kinda like when you cancel cruise control with stepping on the brakes).The only thing that I can think of is that maybe something isn't sitting in there right. Any ideas?
click noise after frt axle rebuild.
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Sounds like you may need to swap your birfs. How old are the brass bushings in the hubs?
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I put in a different set of birfs with approx. 70k miles on them. The brass bushings,,,my guess is that they are the originals.
torfab
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Birfs can click from having wear, but you will usually hear it when accelerating while turning. Try turning right or left while going forward or reverse from a stop.
If it doesn't click from that, then perhaps it's something else?
If it doesn't click from that, then perhaps it's something else?
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Hence the reason why I replaced my birfs with lower mileage ones. My old birfs were clicking when turning.
Let me clarify that the "click" I'm talking about only seems to happen at higher speeds and not when turning.
I'm starting to wonder if it's in my transfer case or something.
On my 92 FJ80, there was the infamous clunck. This is nowhere that loud/hard.This sounds a bit like a solenoid when engaging/disengaging. If that makes any sense. For sure, it's coming from the front.
These are things I think it could be. Correct me if I am out of line.
1. Maybe one of the c-clips in the birfs popped off.
2. Maybe the brass bushings are bad.
3. Maybe it's one or both of my front calipers.
4. U joints going bad.
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thats another thing to be discussed later.
but no. its when ive been coasting and suddenly led off the acceralator pedal.
spdwaver
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In contrast to your symptoms, my 'clicking' occurs not when going straight, but only when turning hard left (or right), while letting off of the accelerator during the turn. My situation is consistent with what many other board members have experienced; if you are getting this at higher speeds when going straight, there may be something else to blame, or your birfields are just that bad.
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I am not saying it's my birfs. My birfs are okay in my opinion. I'm thinking it's something else.
did you inspect those birfields good before you used them and did you pack some fresh grease into them before you put them in.
When's the last time you checked your U-Joints? Usually bad ones will whirr but I've had one that clicked like you're describing. My guess then was that it was "releasing" after I finished accelerating and took away the the torque. Since the driveshaft was still spinning it seemed like it wouldn't unload like that but oddly enough, that was the cause of the click.
Hi,
I have a click similar to what you've described when releasing the gas pedal. Replaced the front DS Ujoints and balanced. Still there. Rebuilt the front end. No luck.
At this point I'm leaning towards worn drive plates = slop. Need to replace them.
Could also be tranny kickdown cable out of adjustment. Or a stretched throttle cable which I need to replace before fine tuning the tranny cable.
Don't know if that helps you any, but did you replace you're drive plates?
I have a click similar to what you've described when releasing the gas pedal. Replaced the front DS Ujoints and balanced. Still there. Rebuilt the front end. No luck.
At this point I'm leaning towards worn drive plates = slop. Need to replace them.
Could also be tranny kickdown cable out of adjustment. Or a stretched throttle cable which I need to replace before fine tuning the tranny cable.
Don't know if that helps you any, but did you replace you're drive plates?
