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I am going to work on it this weekend. Texas been in a deep freeze last few day. This south Texas boy does not like freak cold snaps. Ha!!
I cut the bands of the drive shaft from the boot that disappeared and some of the noise went away but I still can hear it, just not as loud. Will remove driveline to install that as well as check rear calipers for stuck sliders.
I pulled the slide pins on the calipers and most were coated in dried grease that had balled up in the protective boot. The rear driver side had a slide pins that was almost seized. I cleaned and used pin lube that was recommended earlier.
Was excited and took her for a drive. Ugh, it still squeaks. It starts at about 25mph when coasting. Applying brakes does not change pitch at all. When I accelerate (gently), noise goes away until slowing down.
I still need to drop drive shaft to install boot on slip joint. The u-joints did not seem bad or have excess play when I first checked them.
I know its a 24 year old vehicle and I can deal with interior rattles but the squeaking drives me nuts.
I just corrected an issue on one of my service vans, a harmonic squeal from the rear that's been going on for a few years. I jacked up the rear end, backed it up with jack stands, put it in drive and learned that it was the drivers side, and not the pass side as was heard from inside the empty van. It ended up being a portion of the spring clips was rubbing on the rotor outer surface.
Update:
what I thought would be an easy u joint fix, turned into two weeks of hell.
dropped drive shaft. Slip joint came off no problem because it had little grease. Knocked out the u joint on the yoke flange and replaced. No biggie.
the damn double cardan joint upfront was a ****. Finally got the u joints to come out and the CV ball was toast. No grease, the needle bearings were shot.
got a new CV ball. Old ball came out no problem but the fitting had basically welded itself to the flange yoke. Ended up having to just buy a new piece.
Finally got it back together and now no more squeaking and no more thunking because I greased the ***** out of the slip joint. The CV ball had trashed the sleeve. Basically had melted away a section of it. I could not get it to come out.
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