A crappy day. Last night - or around 2:00 this morning - I pulled into a state campground here in Sioux Falls.
My truck had started making a kind of clunking sound when turning at slow speeds. Kinda sluggish to turn. It actually felt like a car without power steering, for anyone who might remember that.
I’m in the parking lot after paying my entrance fee at the automated kiosk. I put it in drive and this nasty grinding sound starts. Loud. I shift into park and it stutters a bit, but continues. Not only that, but the truck starts to roll backwards as if in neutral, but it’s clearly in park. I let it roll backwards until I’m in a parking space in the back of the lot and shut it down.
In the morning I call AAA and get a tow to what, by all accounts, is a reputable shop. They tell me the happy news: they have to order an axle joint (?) for the front passenger side. I’m not a car guy, so I assume it’s just the end of the axle? It won’t be here until Thursday, so I’m stranded in Sioux Falls until then. The shop guy seems to be forthcoming and even gave me loaner. So now I’m waiting.
What puzzles me is how the axle could make park “act like” neutral, and what the grinding sound was from.
Shop says once they fix the axle, that *could* solve everything. Or, there could be something else going on. The grinding actually seemed to come from both sides - not just the passenger side - but then again, that could just be my imagination.
Anyway, just whining
. Maybe we can use the post as a sticky for “What went wrong with your 200 today?” !!
Oh, and the only part they can get is not OEM, which would have not been here until the middle of next week. The question: how long are the axles and their components normally supposed to last? Mine is a 2014.
My truck had started making a kind of clunking sound when turning at slow speeds. Kinda sluggish to turn. It actually felt like a car without power steering, for anyone who might remember that.
I’m in the parking lot after paying my entrance fee at the automated kiosk. I put it in drive and this nasty grinding sound starts. Loud. I shift into park and it stutters a bit, but continues. Not only that, but the truck starts to roll backwards as if in neutral, but it’s clearly in park. I let it roll backwards until I’m in a parking space in the back of the lot and shut it down.
In the morning I call AAA and get a tow to what, by all accounts, is a reputable shop. They tell me the happy news: they have to order an axle joint (?) for the front passenger side. I’m not a car guy, so I assume it’s just the end of the axle? It won’t be here until Thursday, so I’m stranded in Sioux Falls until then. The shop guy seems to be forthcoming and even gave me loaner. So now I’m waiting.
What puzzles me is how the axle could make park “act like” neutral, and what the grinding sound was from.
Shop says once they fix the axle, that *could* solve everything. Or, there could be something else going on. The grinding actually seemed to come from both sides - not just the passenger side - but then again, that could just be my imagination.
Anyway, just whining
. Maybe we can use the post as a sticky for “What went wrong with your 200 today?” !!Oh, and the only part they can get is not OEM, which would have not been here until the middle of next week. The question: how long are the axles and their components normally supposed to last? Mine is a 2014.
