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Re: UJ's Again

To: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
Subject: Re: UJ's Again
From: Dave Chu <dave@ece.concordia.ca>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:54:53 -0500

In message <3.0.5.16.19981027110832.42df76b8@jak10.med.navy.mil>you write:
>OK, I checked out my U-joints this weekend and could not find any play in
>them.  Maybe I was checking the wrong thing.  I could not find any
>looseness in the U-joints, but I did turn the driveshaft by hand and it
>would rock about an 1/8th of a turn and I could hear it clunk.  What is
>going on here, is my Differential causing the problem.  The most noticeable
>sign is a single pop when accelerating or shifting up under acceleration.
>Patrick Bowen

  Patrick, have you check to see if all the nuts and bolts between the
  drive-shaft and the flange are not loose?

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