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1995 D35 with standard JY Warn lockouts
It sounds like a rock in the tire... but the tire is clean. A healthy click every rotation and it is the same whether I am on pavement, gravel or dirt. If I lock in the DS hub the noise goes away. It does it with the truck on a jackstand so it is easy to play with.
I swapped hubs to another used one Tuesday night and the noise was gone yesterday, it is back today and almost louder than it was with the other hub.
Last fall the DS hub seemed to have engaged itself, not saying I didn't forget it locked in but I am pretty sure I didn't forget it locked in. I blamed it on myself at the time but I am wandering if something isn't hanging up inside. Really weird to have two doing it but I can't see how anything else with the axle would care. The shaft itself just sits there going down the road...
Ideas?
Nothing looks outwardly wrong on the inside of the hub, hub isn't full of grease either.
@4x4junkie @Shran
It sounds like a rock in the tire... but the tire is clean. A healthy click every rotation and it is the same whether I am on pavement, gravel or dirt. If I lock in the DS hub the noise goes away. It does it with the truck on a jackstand so it is easy to play with.
I swapped hubs to another used one Tuesday night and the noise was gone yesterday, it is back today and almost louder than it was with the other hub.
Last fall the DS hub seemed to have engaged itself, not saying I didn't forget it locked in but I am pretty sure I didn't forget it locked in. I blamed it on myself at the time but I am wandering if something isn't hanging up inside. Really weird to have two doing it but I can't see how anything else with the axle would care. The shaft itself just sits there going down the road...
Ideas?
Nothing looks outwardly wrong on the inside of the hub, hub isn't full of grease either.
@4x4junkie @Shran