Gleason
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- Oct 5, 2003
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Henrietta,
New York
There is a very wierd noise coming from under the car possibly from the driveshaft/transfer case.
It is extremly hard to describe, but when the car is in gear and driving, the sound increases as the cars revolutions do. At about 3k rpm my car sounds like a steam engine from the 'chugging' type noise coming from the car. My dad suggests it is from the driveshaft, and universal joint. He thinks it may have frozen/somehow got damaged from not being driven for about 4 months thru our NY winter [
].
The noise almost sounds like a scrapeing type noise, it is wierd. I can't describe the noise in words good, but as stated above, my car does sound abit like a chugging steam engine when around 3-4krpms.[ didn't rev any higher but it would definatly increase with more revs ]
I havent driven the car in about 6 months, and it hasn't been started in about 4 months. [ had leak with fuel pump assembly and it took forever to get a replacement and then have good weather to install it, so the car was down and not running for those 4 months or so ] .
The noise only occurs when in gear, and increases as the revs increase, so thats why we are thinking it is the driveshaft, and i think it might also be the transfer case. The noise itself seems to be coming from the front center, around the tranny area so its not the engine. [ when in nuetral and revving the car sounds normal ] .
We are probably going to drop the driveshaft sometime hopefully soon[ we will check the Universal joints first as I just read about them in my haynes manual ], but if anyone else has had a similar noise, please chime in with some sort of solution or check.
Could it possibly be the Universal joint just needs some sort of lubrication? damn I want to go look at it, but its 1am and not knowing exactly has me running circles in my head.
P.S. - I havent checked or replaced the transfercase fluid since i got the car 6 months ago [ its only been driven twice in those 6 months, with occasional weekly start ups before the fuel pump assembly went ] Could it be that, or no?
-Brian
Damn, I want to drive my car for once . 6 months of just looking at it. 
It is extremly hard to describe, but when the car is in gear and driving, the sound increases as the cars revolutions do. At about 3k rpm my car sounds like a steam engine from the 'chugging' type noise coming from the car. My dad suggests it is from the driveshaft, and universal joint. He thinks it may have frozen/somehow got damaged from not being driven for about 4 months thru our NY winter [
].The noise almost sounds like a scrapeing type noise, it is wierd. I can't describe the noise in words good, but as stated above, my car does sound abit like a chugging steam engine when around 3-4krpms.[ didn't rev any higher but it would definatly increase with more revs ]
I havent driven the car in about 6 months, and it hasn't been started in about 4 months. [ had leak with fuel pump assembly and it took forever to get a replacement and then have good weather to install it, so the car was down and not running for those 4 months or so ] .
The noise only occurs when in gear, and increases as the revs increase, so thats why we are thinking it is the driveshaft, and i think it might also be the transfer case. The noise itself seems to be coming from the front center, around the tranny area so its not the engine. [ when in nuetral and revving the car sounds normal ] .
We are probably going to drop the driveshaft sometime hopefully soon[ we will check the Universal joints first as I just read about them in my haynes manual ], but if anyone else has had a similar noise, please chime in with some sort of solution or check.
Could it possibly be the Universal joint just needs some sort of lubrication? damn I want to go look at it, but its 1am and not knowing exactly has me running circles in my head.
P.S. - I havent checked or replaced the transfercase fluid since i got the car 6 months ago [ its only been driven twice in those 6 months, with occasional weekly start ups before the fuel pump assembly went ] Could it be that, or no?
-Brian
Damn, I want to drive my car for once
. 6 months of just looking at it. 
