Good Point rlh68050, will try that out on the hand turning. Thought I had to jack it up for that test.

Exv10, I did a lot of searching and was not able to find anything other than this thread that talked specifically about the Ujoints. Most of them led into ball joints or other things like drop links, etc that were not the same sound as what I am getting.

Will be interesting that if the Ujoints turn freely and I still get that popping sound, what the heck could that be? Bearings? I sure hope not!

I was not able to get into it last weekend like I had hoped, so will do so this weekend.