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4WD - mechanical issue, stuff hanging off drive shaft
So, the other day, the old girl started making hideous whining, screeching metal on metal noises, hunting around I couldn't find an immiediate cause and then it stopped, I had thought it had maybe been a stone caught in the disc caliper, as it was that sort of sound, anyway I forgot about it, no noise, no problem right?
Well after that I discovered my 4WD wasn't when I manfully drove into a wet muddy paddock with my manly chunky new tryes....and gracefully came to a wheel spinning halt, leaving it in lo box 1st, I hopped out to confirm, no drive to the front wheels!
TO add insult to injury I was rescued by a nice blonde lass in a nana 4WD with road tyres......the shame!
The 4WD light comes on and I can hear the solenoids clicking but NO 4WD
Anyway, having had a gander on the boards here, I then went for a crawl under truck and found this: This is the inboard end of the near side drive shaft, what I can see is two mangled bits of circular metal hanging out and the whole thing seems to have a lot of centric movement but no sideways movement, when compared to the off side shaft, anyone got any idea's as Haynes has not shed any light on it. This is my daily driver and being a builder, 4WD is kinda essential on some of my jobs, so any help/pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated!
Well after that I discovered my 4WD wasn't when I manfully drove into a wet muddy paddock with my manly chunky new tryes....and gracefully came to a wheel spinning halt, leaving it in lo box 1st, I hopped out to confirm, no drive to the front wheels!
TO add insult to injury I was rescued by a nice blonde lass in a nana 4WD with road tyres......the shame!
The 4WD light comes on and I can hear the solenoids clicking but NO 4WD
Anyway, having had a gander on the boards here, I then went for a crawl under truck and found this: This is the inboard end of the near side drive shaft, what I can see is two mangled bits of circular metal hanging out and the whole thing seems to have a lot of centric movement but no sideways movement, when compared to the off side shaft, anyone got any idea's as Haynes has not shed any light on it. This is my daily driver and being a builder, 4WD is kinda essential on some of my jobs, so any help/pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated!
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