I have a problem I desperately hope somebody can help me with. Long story short....About a year ago during a storm a 16 year old kid ran me off the road into a large amount of water. It hydrolocked the motor, which the insurance was all to happy to replace since it did no other damage to the car, and it was the first claim i had ever had in 11 years. I was excited about this since i had just caught my wife cheating on me with an ex and had started a nasty divorce. When the dust settled the Stang was all i had left (gotta love alabama laws, as she said, I did nothing wrong...this was just a guy she couldn't get past.) Enough rambling... I decided to go ahead with the new motor instead of totaling it, now i wish i had just taken the money and ran. About 3 months ago i started noticing a loud noise coming from the Trans and come to find out the Ford dealership that did the repairs decided to use the old pilot bearing and when it wouldn't fit correctly they decided to wield it in...The insurance company paid for the second repair, the trans shop (that i chose) said the clutch looked great and the trans was surprisingly in great shape for its age. The only other fix i've had was the pinion seal began to leak while i was on vacation and the car sat for a week. Now that you know the back story, last week i put new tires on the car and the next day I began to notice a whine coming from what i thought was the transmission, the whine got louder. Last night i talked with an ASE mechanic buddy of mine and he told me to check the fluid level because sometimes when they pull the drive shaft some fluid may leak out, checked it and it was at the correct level. Put everything back and torqued to spec. Today on the way home the whine begun to get louder and louder and as i pulled up to my apartment complex i noticed a rythmic banging noise i pressed the clutch in and the noise continued. The clutch pulls as strong as the day i bought the car, and the noise slows down with the rotation of the tires not the RPMs of the motor. I've checked brakes, rotors, the drive shaft and u joints, all seem to be in working order. Is it possible that the new tires caused a problem in the rearend and would i hear it inside the car and feel the same vibration in the sifter handle as the whine in the car. It makes no noise until it is moving and i can hear no typical noises that you would hear from a clutch. Sorry for the long post i just wanted you to have as much detail as possible... The problem i am running into is the shops around me work on either the trans or the rearend but not both, and the ones that do are the most complained on shops i've ever seen one shop i read up on had 46 complaints in the past year for terrible quality of work. Thank you very much in advance.