To All of you,
Recently I had a long saga with the local dealer regading front Axle rebulit on my Rig (97, LX 450), currently 91K miles.
With the help of most of you I was able to get my rig back operating just fine until today:
I was making a right turn without stopping (yield sign) and a loud squeek noise came from the right front kunckle then followed by a loud grown just as I was making the attempt to stop everything disappeared (no more noises), I stopped anyways then I crawled underneath the rig to check for whatever might be the source of the noise but everything looked intact, so my assumption will be internal.
But As I proceeded driving with cautious, the noise never got duplicated at all or came back at all.
What I have noticed later in the day is when I am attempting to pick-up in first gear I felt like something was overturning in the front , better discribtion will be like an engine / transmission mount is broken like feel, and you feel something like moves up and down only as you are picking up and the rig is in forward motion then it proceeds down the road fine.
Also the same happened when I took it over gravel and proceeded over small pumps I was feeling like the axle is grabbing then letting go then grapping for good, it is like a skip feel in the front end.
If you place your hand on the tramsmission shifter not the transfer case shifter, you will feel the skipping on pick-up as well as when proceeding over pumpy roads, I felt it on the highway going 60 miles/hour as I was approaching a dip in the highway that is 3 yards long, I felt the let-go and grap feel again as my hand was on the transmission shifter.
Do I have something really major had gone wrong.
Hope my discription is suffecient.
Note: I checked the U-Joints and the drive shafts everything is good under there. no play whatsoever.
Any ideas please ????
Al
Recently I had a long saga with the local dealer regading front Axle rebulit on my Rig (97, LX 450), currently 91K miles.
With the help of most of you I was able to get my rig back operating just fine until today:
I was making a right turn without stopping (yield sign) and a loud squeek noise came from the right front kunckle then followed by a loud grown just as I was making the attempt to stop everything disappeared (no more noises), I stopped anyways then I crawled underneath the rig to check for whatever might be the source of the noise but everything looked intact, so my assumption will be internal.
But As I proceeded driving with cautious, the noise never got duplicated at all or came back at all.
What I have noticed later in the day is when I am attempting to pick-up in first gear I felt like something was overturning in the front , better discribtion will be like an engine / transmission mount is broken like feel, and you feel something like moves up and down only as you are picking up and the rig is in forward motion then it proceeds down the road fine.
Also the same happened when I took it over gravel and proceeded over small pumps I was feeling like the axle is grabbing then letting go then grapping for good, it is like a skip feel in the front end.
If you place your hand on the tramsmission shifter not the transfer case shifter, you will feel the skipping on pick-up as well as when proceeding over pumpy roads, I felt it on the highway going 60 miles/hour as I was approaching a dip in the highway that is 3 yards long, I felt the let-go and grap feel again as my hand was on the transmission shifter.
Do I have something really major had gone wrong.
Hope my discription is suffecient.
Note: I checked the U-Joints and the drive shafts everything is good under there. no play whatsoever.
Any ideas please ????
Al