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Sloppy Trac Lok Unit

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  • Start date Start date May 2, 2006

JOEGTS

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I get a clunking noise from my rearend when slowly letting the clutch out sometimes. I pulled my diff cover off and found that my Trac Lok unit seems to have quite an amount of play. When you turn a tire in either direction there seems to be play inside whether from the clutches or spider gears. Will rebuilding tre unit tighten it up? I purchased the rebuild kit some time ago but never did it because the car allways spins both tires.
 

Roland69

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could be a U-joint also check them first they are cheap and easy
 

JOEGTS

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Its deffinetely something inside the diff.
 

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you have gear play somewhere a bad traction lok will not cause play.and what i mean by gear play is worn gears ring gear, drive pinion or differential side or pinion gear(spider gears) or you may have a loose ring gear.it could be a number of things bad bearings or worn shims ect....you need to watch gears while someone else rotates wheel and/or driveshaft and find the gear with the play check how much driveshaft play you have and how far you have to turn driveshaft to engage ring gear i will almost bet thats where your problem is...and repost
 
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