Grinding noise?

**rozco** · 01-15-2012, 12:03 AM

I'm usually in the zj section but this is for a friend. He has a 02 wj overland.

When you're done making a turn and start going straight you feel a (sort of) grinding noise/feeling but only for a few seconds. Also sometimes when u come a stop, and then start accelerating you will feel it for a few seconds.

It's hard to explain its not really a grinding feeling, more of a wobble feeling from somewhere in the front diff or drive shaft I think.

I did a visual inspection and that only thing I found was that I was able to turn his front driveshaft about a half inch when it's parked.
Is that normal? I checked my zj and it doesn't do that.

Both our grands have the 249 TC if that helps anything

Any ideas?

**rozco** · 01-15-2012, 06:50 PM

Bump.. Anyone have any suggestions what I should look into?

Weeder1 · 01-15-2012, 08:15 PM

Hows the brakes? id start looking at the simplest things and go from there. I have an 04 and it was grinding/scraping at low speeds and right turns, swapped the pads out and the inside was gone. Anyway new brakes=no noise[for me at least] just an idea buddy

**rozco** · 01-15-2012, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Weeder1

Hows the brakes? id start looking at the simplest things and go from there. I have an 04 and it was grinding/scraping at low speeds and right turns, swapped the pads out and the inside was gone. Anyway new brakes=no noise[for me at least] just an idea buddy

Didn't think of that but I'll check it out. The new owner and the previous owner are both my friends and I can see the previous owner not keeping up with maintenance so I'll take a look

sween404 · 01-15-2012, 08:37 PM

Has the e brake been replaced or adjusted recently? My buddy's Cherokee has similar issues and ended up being his ebrake shoe came loose and was grabbing the rim

DxBterrorist · 01-17-2012, 03:16 AM

Check the drive shaft CV joints,
I had the same noise and changed the rear CV joint of my drive shaft and all gone...
The seal was broken and sand got inside the joint and it made a loud grinding noise at low speed and after few weeks the noise became louder on high speed as well...

Check CV joints..

cmurr03 · 01-17-2012, 03:32 PM

If the drive shaft has that much play, sounds to me like a U joint might be bad.