I drove 70 mi. the other day and was on the way home and all of a sudden there was a noise eminating from what sounded like the drivers side rear. The noise sounded like someone was under there banging on a piece of steel, bang bang bang. I pulled over into a parking lot parked, shut the engine off and knelt down and looked under the car. I had replaced the rubber boots about 500 miles before but everything looked OK. I got back in the car started it and continued my drive home with the car still making the noise. 35mph was what I drove at all the way home. Backed it into the garage, jacked it up by the differential, put jack stands at the jacking points and crawled under on a creeper jeepers. Turned the wheels, shook the wheels top to bottom, front to back no movement. Played with the axel shafts no movement, played with the drive shaft, checked the carrier bearing as best I could with the shield installed. It all checked out OK. Started the car with the front wheels chocked and put it in gear D then R then D ran the revs up with the tires spinning = no noise. I also checked the wimpy anti sway bar in the back to see if the bushings were bad.

Jacked it back up pulled the jack stands, tire chocks and took it for a spin no noise. Does anyone have any suggestions? I will drive it locally and see what happens.

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Gary
OBK #37