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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: bkcraun on June 20, 2004, 04:41:14 AM
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OK men, I need your help. My 1998 Tracker is making a funny clicking noise up front in two wheel drive. The manual hubs are turned to Free. If I switch it to 4 wheel high, the noise goes away, again the hubs are still Free. The noise is pronounced going forward or in reverse in 2 WD. The clicking noise gets faster as the vehicle goes faster. Like a rock in your tire noise. My first thought is a bad birfield, but they aren’t engaged in 2 WD are they? Any ideas?
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The only time I've had a clicking noise is
front, is in 4WD and hubs engaged, it sounded
like a roller coaster clicking as you get ready
for the first drop.
I was thinking tho, are you sure the hubs are
not stuck in the engaged mode, and the CVs
are clicking from wear ?? while going forward,
Other than that, a bad U-joint does make
some clicking sounds too.
Hope this helps
Wild
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im betting on the u joint, check that your front shaft is really disengaged too. next bet is the hubs too. never had your problem but i have had 2 trackers that got so crappy that they would not engage, and when i took them apart the springs were weak! might not be 100% holding them in, if stock hubs the spring pushes and pulls the locking ring in and out...
you did look for rubbing stuff..... and that rock right? ;D
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Gonna find out today. Had to put the Tracker in the shop because I had a control arm bushing that the bolt had frozen up in. I found this out as I was trying to install Calminis steering stabilizer. While the shop has it,
I'm going to have them put on a set of Warn premium hubs. Hope it was just a hub, I'm running low on moola.
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It was a bad hub. Got those bulletproof Warns on now!
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Watch the hub bolts, they work loose, they
are not "cone washered" like the stockers,
that and you could have saved the $100 on
the new hubs by cleaning the old ones, save
the old hubs, just in case you find the new
hubs to be less than you expect
Wild
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I'm only running 235's. I don't think they would be large enough to cause hub bolts to loosen? I also have this "shield" that goes around my hubs. I can't even see my hub bolts to see if they are coming loose. Should I remove that shield?