U-joints?
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U-joints?
When I am coming to a stop in my E99 I hear a loud clunk under the truck. It can be felt by both myself and the passenger and it happens every time I slow down to a stop. Would this likely be U-joints? If so how to I check them to be sure? If not what else should I check?
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Do you have a two-piece drive line with a slip yoke in the middle? (My van should have had that, but instead it has the dang slip yoke on the transfer case tail piece which is a known leak problem.) On the Bronco, the slip yoke between the two-piece driveline was often the source of that mysterious clunk. No need to disassemble the ujoints, just grease the slip yoke splines.
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Could be the ball joints. Mine did that when breaking hard and would clunk. I never fixed it though because I got rid of the truck. You might want to check your front sway bar for play as well.
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