Jingle bells in my front end

[spyder97gs]

I just put my front end back together. Driving the car I get a "jingle" from my drivers side somewhere, and I cant pinpoint it. What could the possibility be? Would the axle do this? It's driving me insane. It increases with my driving speed.

Also in reverse I'm getting a grind from the passenger side, but ONLY in reverse. What gives?

 

[02BLUR]

Hard to say, you gotta get in there and check your work.

"Front end" meaning what? Both drive axles? Tranny and axles?

 

[spyder97gs]

Hard to say, you gotta get in there and check your work.

"Front end" meaning what? Both drive axles? Tranny and axles?

I've checked my work, I just don't know what it could be without replacing every part of the front end. By "Front end" I mean, drive axles, tie-rods, control arms, hubs. All the front suspension stuff.

 

[02BLUR]

Ok, so "jingle" means a constant noise that increases with speed? What about the brake pads? I have had some trouble with my brake pads as they sometimes clang around...

 

[spyder97gs]

I can jack the car up, and put it in first gear and let the wheels spin and hear it. What could "jingle" on the axle? It couldn't be the circlip that holds the axle into the transmission could it? Wouldn't the tranny fluid lube it enough to where it could be metal against metal?

 

[TurkF26]

almost sounds like either tranny problems or the bearing in the hub may be shot. check to make sure the axel nut is tight.

 

[spyder97gs]

Problem solved. It was a loose hub bolt jingling against my axle. Now my tie-rod nut keeps threading off! Yay! Thanks fellows.

 

[02BLUR]

Put a cotter pin in there