Hey guys on my 5.9 tonight when I was leaving the gas station I made a right hand turn on the parkway and the Jeep poped somewhere underneath I felt it in the floorboards.. This is the 2nd time its happened to me this week.. So I was going to a parking lot to check it out as I was about drive up to my friends house 1 state up but I didn't like the noise and I didn't feel safe going on the freeway like that.. So while making the right hand turn in the parking lot the rear right of the vehicle felt weird like the tire was leaning in or something..
So I got out and grabbed the tire on top with my hands and wiggle it hard back and forth pushing and pulling, and I could hear something poping.. It sounded awfully like the rotor was poping on something.. So I got the stock Jeep lug nut thing out and started to tighten my lugs and they were a little tight but I could easily tighten them by leaning on the wrench so they weren't as tight as they should be I think..
I then wiggled the tire again and it still was making the noise.. So I went home to get the 4.0 instead as I don't wanna die with my wheel flying off on the freeway.. I wiggled the tire one more time when I got home and I could still hear something slight but it was mostly gone..
What do you guys think this is ? The sound I mentiond sounded just like brake rotors do if you bang em on the ground.. Something is deff loose down there.. Im thinking of jacking up the rear and taking the tire off and checking it out but I dunno what all to look for
I almost think I can see some movement when I watch the brake rotor and the caliper/pads while im wiggling the tire I sware it looks like it moving... Its deff not the control arms or shocks the sound is coming from the rotor area.
Check the back of the wheel and if you see gear lube on it since often the seal will start to fail if the rear bearing's going bad. But if you tightened the lugs and the noise went away re-toque them to 90-100 ftlbs. Also make sure one of the caliper slide bolts hasn't backed out along with where the caliper attaches. Loose shock or broken/loose rear sway bar link will also make a popping noise. Good luck.
Yea I just went out there a few min ago and got my big *** torque wrench out and set it at 100ft lbs and loosen all the lugs and re-torqued them to 100ft lbs.. Normally tho I torque them to 80ft lbs not 100.. I grabbed the top of the wheel and pulled and pushed as hard as could rocking the Jeep back n forth and I couldn't hear anything anymore.. No I don't have any gear oil leaking on this 5.9 in the front or the back.. Now i decided to rock the Jeep forward and back with the wheel and i could hear something in the wheel not sure how to describe it and i don't hear that noise on the passenger wheel.. I dunno.. I think come Monday Im gonna call a few shops and have them jack it up and check it out hopefully that wont be too much money.. I'll check the 2 caliper bolts right now tho. I know my front a year ago was stripped i had to put a helicoil in it.
But yea that tire the noise moving it front to back it really sounds like something has play in it. The noise deff isn't coming from the shocks or control arms... Im telling you guys its coming from the wheel I can feel it too.. Im wondering if this is where that vibration im feeling and hearing on the freeway at 65+ mph is coming from.. What I don't understand is I passed inspection and I've had many shops look at the 5.9 before jacked up wiggling the tires and no one has noticed this.. So I dunno maybe it was just the lugs.. I'll it and and check on it every now and then and see if I can make it pop again by wiggling it.
Mine does this a bit and it is a wallowed out rear track bar axle side bracket. A fix is to either weld a correct-sized washer over the hole, or drilling it out for a bigger bolt and bushing sleeve (Kevin's offroad sells a kit for this). When your shaking the jeep and it's making that noise, look at the bar/bracket for any movement.
Its an inner c clip axle, they all clunk and yes you can see the tire move in and out. It will slide the whole axle shaft in and out a bit as the splines inside the spiders slide : tight to spider-out, tight to crosspin-in
So your saying that's normal then ? I haven't driven it since but I cant make it pop anymore if I wiggle it in and out hard, it only makes a slight noise if I roll it back and forth...
I was going to have a shop look at it but ill wait and see if it pops anymore.. maybe the lugs just needed to be re-torqued
Ok. I brought it to a shop and they didn't charge me to look at and drive it on the freeway.. They heard the vibrations or rumbling im getting from the rear end at 65+ mph, but they didn't hear the poping my tire did.. It hasn't done it anymore.. He also mentioned my front differential is making a slight noise which I already knew the pinion bearing in that is going bad but its very slight and faint and im not worried about that.. The rear he said the same thing you did about the c clip and the axles pulling in and out.. He also mentioned that rust on the brake rotors between the rim flakes off sometimes and if you torque a wheel to say 80ft lbs the rust creates a gap and you lose that torque.. That could have been the poping im hearing between there might be a gap between the the rotor and rim and that makes some sense because I did mention to you guys it sounds like the rotor was poping or something..
But the mechanic also said my wheel bearings and other bearings in the rear are fine.. If my wheel bearings were bad he would have heard a noise starting at 10mph and up because the bearing moves at the speed the tires do so if I had any bearing issues I would hear it around the city under 65mph.. and I don't and neither did he.. But that rumbling in the back at 65mph he isn't sure what it was.. they refferd me to a shop that works on axles and they have apparently worked on lots of Jeeps before with rear end problems so I'll give them a call and setup an appointment to check out my rear end and see whats causing the vibrations at 65+
Never been serviced How do you even service a U-joint ? The drive shaft has been off about a year ago when I did my vc and it felt fine.. moved smoothly and didn't have any play
Serviced as in replaced, even though it may feel fine it could develop play under load conditions and start to oscillate causing a vibration and droning sound. I had this happen once with a 71 Chevy 3/4 ton PU, replaced the u joints and the vibration and oscillating droning sound disappeared!!!. Maybe it might be something similar in your situation.
One thing I do notice is the rear passenger side makes a scratching noise... very very faint and it follows the wheel at the exact same speed.. if the wheel gets faster so does it... I can here it but not that well my hearing isn't too good when it comes to soft noises... (apparently I have a big decibel loss in my hearing for soft noises) but I do hear it... I remember one time I had the rear axle jacked up and my mechanic friend of mine who was trying to figure out where my noise was coming from, spun the rear passenger wheel and heard the same soft scratching noise and went hmmm.... But he didn't say anything after that.
As for my poping noise on the passenger side.. since I losend and tightend my lugs it hasn't come back, and I've driven it for many miles and on the freeway so I guess that one mechanic was right and it was just a gap between the wheel and disk rotor
A soft and longish scratching noise is most likely brake discs that are slightly warped or half shaft end that is kinked to one side a bit and allows the brake discs to come into contact with brake shoes every rotation.
Sure it isn't the dust shield/backing plate making the screeching noise? Know sometimes I've had slightly bent ones or a piece of gravel/rock stuck in mine. And the faster I went so did the noise since the shield's stationary.
Is that a new 426hp Camaro SS in your stable? Nice!
Yea 426HP 420FT lbs of torque... lol... Had it for like 4 months now... The car is scary fast... lol 0-60 in 4.3 seconds.. The brakes are crazy on it too, I went 100mph in just a few seconds and slammed on the brakes as hard as i could and my eyeballs were poping out of my head and dangling on strings... It stopped within seconds lol.. Has great handeling too, but it is noisy on the floorboard I hear every little rock that flings up on it.. I also think the Jeep's suspension is softer even with original shocks.. The Camaro you feel every little bump on the road, and the seats are hard as a rock I hate the seats, and the seat belts are like 2 feet behind you and they are impossible to just grab like the Jeep.
But I still love it, gets about the same gas mileage as the 5.9 does.. Im averaging only about 12.5mpg in the city on it atm lol, its nice to use 87 in the thing but I heard it ping a few times and while I know the engine corrects that.. I'd rather not lose power doing so, so it gets 93 just like the 5.9 lol.. If you think the 5.9 engines are big.. pff.. the Camaro is huge when you open the hood. I think the EPA ratings on the Camaro are a load of ****... If I reset it and don't push the car I cannot for the love of god get the so called 16mpg city that chevy claims it can get.. and 24mpg freeway lol.. pftt good luck
Does sound scary fast and brings back memories of the muscle car days I grew up in. Z/28's, GTO's, 442's, etc.. Believe the fastest car I ever drove was a 1968 competition 426-hemi Roadrunner w/dual 4-barrels. They even had 2 more leaf springs on one side of the rear than the other it created so much torque. What's funny is it developed about the same HP (425) and probably torque as in your Camaro SS which has to be a whole lot lighter. So know your's must fly!
Problem with old muscle cars is they aren't really that fast... lol. I've seen a lot of older cars where the owner thinks his car is the **** speed wise and its slower then a 4.0 ZJ..
The Camaro SS we have is the 1SS meaning not RS package, like fancy LED Halo lights, and no leather seats or stripe through the middle of the paint.. I mean it has power everything just no leather ect.. My moms friend purchased a black RS 6 cylinder for the same price.. he paid like $38,000 with taxes and that's how much we paid for the V8 with no RS package.. TBH I'd rather have the V8.. there is no point having a Camaro or mustang with a V6 in my opinion..
If a 5.9 gets 7 seconds 0-60 imagine 4 seconds ? Its literally 2x faster then my 5.9 "almost" lol.. My mom wanted a used SRT8 Grand... but the SRT8 is slower then the Camaro and honestly I think srt8's are butt ugly, and the interior is very plain. Here is a pic of it at the dealership.. It looks black, but its actually a really really dark kind of purple.. At night its black.. during the day with the sun on it its purple, during the evening it looks blackish/purple.. It changes color during the day... Its a new color they had
Cameros are nice, but I'm a mopar person for sure. I'm trying to talk myself into a tuner for the 13 Ram that was recently acquired...granted it only pushes 390Hp and 408Tq, but it still gets up and goes. Does better when you stomp it at dead on 30 than it does from take off.
Real nice Camaro Candymancan! While maybe some of the older muscle cars may not seem all that fast to current standards that competition 426 hemi 1968 Roadrunner I drove was definitely fast! It would go 0-60 in a little over 5 secs and I remember hitting about 110mph in a little over 1/4 mile in front of my HS at night. Lol.
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