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Need help with '99 G-C Limited

417 views 8 replies 6 participants last post by  mshaffer 
#1 ·
Beautiful daughter's absolutely beautiful Jeep is giving her fits. Moderate clunking rattle noise coming from rear end on gravel roads, rough paved roads, patched paved roads, bridge thresholds, etc. At first we thought it sounded like something was loose in the spare tire cavity under the rear floor, so we emptied it out. Then we thought bad shocks, so we replaced them all around. Then we thought rear sway links were bad, so we replaced them. Still rattles like we did nothing; annoying!!. It is a loose, metal-on-metal, rattly-clunkety-rattle-rattle sound. She is nearly all original, straight, bone stock, rust free, beautiful running and looking; never rock crawled, mudded, or banged around off road. Any ideas (?) Tom and Paige
 
#3 ·
I'll check it when she brings it home. That sounds very feasible! We were under the rear end of it on the weekend, and noted that ALL of the bushings, body mounts, etc, were factory original '99; some/most of which were dryrotted as H#LL. Could possibly be coming from that; but were unable to test. We hung the rear suspension by the frame on tri-pod floor jacks, then loaded it by putting up pressure on the pig using a hydraulic floor jack. She then articulated it on each side one at a time by using a prybar beneath each tire/wheel; we were unable to repeatedly replicate the sound. I guess we weren't accurately enough simulatating in the garage real road driving conditions.
 
#4 ·
dumb question but do you have a ball hitch in it? mine rattles like a B**** on bumpy roads.
 
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