It finally showed itself!

[Mopar Man1]

I've been having a bad clanging coming from the rear of my truck for a little while now,I've crawled under it several times and inspected the u-joints and they looked fine,not much slop at all in the d-shaft so I thought the worst,rebuilding the rearend I couldn't bring myself to pull the rear diff cover because I knew if I did it would be sititing there for a long time waiting on money to fix the rearend. So I take the truck to the tire shop here in town,get the front tires rebalanced and frontend aligned,I said do what it needs,you know who I am,treat me right. So I come back in a few hours and they balanced the front tires and it's in the alignment shop. I know Chris(feller who does the alignements) and he's a really good feller. He said they didn't rotate these tires,feel these front tires. They are beat out pretty bad from the frontend being out of alignment,but they didn't rotate them. I reckon I'll get the pleasure of doing this. He says and come look at this thing,why ain't you fixed this thing man! He grabs the rear d-shaft and it just flops like crazy. The u-joint right behind the hanger bearing was all but falling out!! I paid and left there and went to Hasty's and got a joint and come home and me and my pappy worked on it. This joint has been like this a long time but I never noticed because it never showed up until just recently(noticed it was getting worse noise from the rearend) I'll include some pictures of this bad boy. The cups were in pieces,no needle bearings what so ever!!! Now there ain't no more vibration at low speeds and it don't clang or bang or chatter anymore! That just made my day



Jimmy