I had my 2" lift installed last night, springs, shocks, SPC UCA's and Dobinson's adjustable rear pan-hard bar. I drove it home 10 miles, no issues other than the alignment being off as expected. I took it to the alignment shop today (they specialize if aligning lifted vehicles and have for decades), it still drove like it did last night. The shop takes it for a quick spin initially, no issues, they return to make initial caster and camber adjustments, another quick test drive and no issues. They make their final toe and re-centering the steering wheel adjustments and take it for it final test drive and upon turning around to head back to shop a loud continuous clunk from the front drivers side appears under acceleration from a stop. Tech initially thinks that it's loose lug nuts or possibly my wheel spacers but they both check out and are tight. They get it in the air and rotate the tire and he can see a hop and bind in the inner most part of the shaft and boot that go into the differential on the driver side.
I confirm the same issue, it does it under acceleration from a complete stand still up to about 20 mph and then goes away if driving in a straight line. The hop is present when turning as well at slow speeds, it's both audible and you can physically feel it through the steering wheel and through seat of pants. CDL still engages/disengages and there are no lights or error codes. No torn boots, leaks, signs of physical damage or marring anywhere on the axle, diff or hub/spindle. I got it over to the stealership and the service writer says it sounds like the CV as well and they actually just had a 2006 100 Series in for one earlier this week. They told me they do happen on the 200 but usually only on the early model years with high miles, they've never seen one from a 2016+ with low miles and in such obvious good shape. I won't know the diagnosis or status until lunch tomorrow but I fully don't expect them to cover this under my drivetrain warranty given the lift which sucks.
Has anyone else experienced this, does this sound like the CV or could it possibly even be a front differential issue? I can't imagine anything that the alignment shop did to align the truck could have anything to do with this nor the shop that did the lift install. I opened the KDSS valves for them before the install and I closed them back up myself as well. Have these failed prematurely for no reason for others, is it a good chance that the lift had something to do with it (seems unlikely given how many run them without issue) and should I be looking into any other possibilities? I'll update the issue tomorrow once I hear back from the dealer.
I confirm the same issue, it does it under acceleration from a complete stand still up to about 20 mph and then goes away if driving in a straight line. The hop is present when turning as well at slow speeds, it's both audible and you can physically feel it through the steering wheel and through seat of pants. CDL still engages/disengages and there are no lights or error codes. No torn boots, leaks, signs of physical damage or marring anywhere on the axle, diff or hub/spindle. I got it over to the stealership and the service writer says it sounds like the CV as well and they actually just had a 2006 100 Series in for one earlier this week. They told me they do happen on the 200 but usually only on the early model years with high miles, they've never seen one from a 2016+ with low miles and in such obvious good shape. I won't know the diagnosis or status until lunch tomorrow but I fully don't expect them to cover this under my drivetrain warranty given the lift which sucks.
Has anyone else experienced this, does this sound like the CV or could it possibly even be a front differential issue? I can't imagine anything that the alignment shop did to align the truck could have anything to do with this nor the shop that did the lift install. I opened the KDSS valves for them before the install and I closed them back up myself as well. Have these failed prematurely for no reason for others, is it a good chance that the lift had something to do with it (seems unlikely given how many run them without issue) and should I be looking into any other possibilities? I'll update the issue tomorrow once I hear back from the dealer.
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