Remember the transmission?

Joopin

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Dunno if you guys remember, but I had transmission problems a few weeks ago, was looking to upgrade, blah blah blah... THEN...

I was going to buy a transmission on ebay remanned, one sunday night. I got distracted and didn't get to it. The next morning I was driving to work... that rattle and whining noise was really bad... then, BAM! My rear driveshaft went south. I pulled over, took it out, and drove to work in front wheel peel.

Yes the Ujoint was broken, BUT! I didn't hear a sound from the transmission when I was driving in front wheel drive, I was very confused. I went to get another Ujoint later that day, and I looked at the driveshaft at the tail end... 2 HUGE chuncks were missing and couldn't even hold anther ujoint. So I was very optomistic and thinking that the noise and vibs were coming from the beat up driveshaft.

I went and had another CV shaft made at a local shaft shop, put it in along with another end yoke... THE NOISE WAS STILL THERE. Damn. So I brought it to the place that told me that I had a bad transmission in the first place and told them what happened when you take the rear shaft out. They looked at it again and upon further study of the problem... it ends up being the bearings in my rear axle!

So I am very relieved thinking, no, KNOWING that it was going to be cheaper to replace bearings in a D44 than putting in a new transmission. I told them to give me a price since I have virtually no time these days to do anything but work. They said, "anywhere between 500 bucks and 1000 bucks... I respond... um thats too much, cause I had a driveshaft shop rebuild the whole rear for a fixed rate of 250 bucks if I supply the parts.
"oh yeah?" he says... "well if they can do it for that then so can I" DUH... I just made the guy come down 600 bucks in price.

So long story short... i bought myself some Timken bearings from Randy's and they are putting them in tomorrow.

Moral of the story?... I dont know.
 
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Moral of the story? You have Jedi mind powers if you actually got the guy to come down that much in price. I'd go shopping for a new car right now wow you still know how to use your powers!
 
I went through almost the same thing a while back. Had a noise that I thought for sure was the transmission. Took it to a transmission shop and they thought the same. They pulled the transmission apart and found nothing. Turns out it was the rearend making noise which was traveling up the driveshaft into the transmission. There was no charge for the teardown of my transmission and at least I know it's in good shape. My rearend ended up having one bad part which gernaded the rest of the rearend. Had to replace my bearings, axleshafts and gears. Put in Yukon chromolly axleshafts and a Detroit locker.
 
Well it was the carrier bearings... but now I have more news. They were in there and they said that the Ring gear and pinion gears need to be replaced too... I guess they wern't seated right and the teeth pretty much sharpened each other. It may have been my fault, i first noticed the bearing noise back in Dec. and didn't do anything about it for 4 months. I think the bearings went bad and threw off the R&P gears... is that possible?
Anyway I am having Randys R&P overnight new Yukon gears to the shop, hopefully it will be done today. SOAB.

Still cheaper than a new transmission though!
 
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