Thread: Oh cripes... something is awry !

ha ha JC I like the way you think !

cewilson.. dust shield ? seal ?

Originally Posted by VladTepes

ha ha JC I like the way you think !

cewilson.. dust shield ? seal ?

I think he means the brake dust shield. I've heard one that's come loose and it is very noisy

Yeh they do make a hell of a noise,mine came loose last weekend. Pat

You know there might be something in that.
Here's the tale.

MR Auto had a look at it and dn; yoiu know it they took it for a drive and aside from a vibration in the engine bay, nothing resembling the symptoms I described.

They checked the oils in diffs, tcase and g/box - all OK, right levels, not chunks of metal.

The noise under the bonnet? That turned out to be the fact there was some sort of a bracket missing, apparently it holds the fuel filter housing or something?

Anyway as they couldn't find it I picked it up again and drove it for 45 minutes this arvo (taking the dog to hydrotherapy ) - problem not evident !

I'm thinking now that it may have been something caught in the braking system of one of the front wheels (most likey the drivers side). If so, then by some tiny chance it has cleared itself between being loaded onto the flatbed and dropped off at MR. One in a million chance I reckon.

Anyway it SEEMS to be OK so let's hope that's the case.

Cheers

Also the one of the transfer case itself - where the front output shaft is. There's another steel/aluminium dust shield for the seal - if it comes loose it'll spin around with the shaft - it's an unmistakable noise once you've heard it once.

Originally Posted by justinc

Agreed, I have done heaps on D2's etc too. Just mentioned that one in particular because it was sooo bad. It will require removal and resealing at the next service if it hasn't stopped dripping Jon, did you ever see many rear ones come loose? All of mine seem to be fronts...

JC

Sory JC, only just saw this.

Plenty of rears as well as fronts.