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Weird sound


0ldman

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Joined
Nov 11, 2007
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Vehicle Year
1998
Transmission
Manual
1988 Ranger, 2.9, 5 speed, 2wd, 7.5, 3.42:1, 190K or 290K on the odo.

I've been hearing this rattling, sometimes kind of a metallic ping, from the rear the last week.

I thought it was probably the universal joints, didn't do it often, only under load between 1500-1900RPM roughly in second, third and fourth. I planned on working on it this weekend.

Today it started really making noise, sounds like valves rattling as though the timing was too high but it was coming from the rear end. It was making it all the way through the gears into fifth, even when cruising. Once it cooled down a bit it nearly went away.

I'm going to get started on it as soon as I can, but I can't get it in the shop to pull the differential cover and take a look right now. Dad's shop is full of crap, I live on top of a hill, not many safe places to get one up in the air properly.

Any tips as to what is causing that sound?
 
Universal joint.

Never heard one make quite that sound.
 

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