Bubkuk
Junior Member
Hey, my 2018 1500 ecodiesel with a 4"/3" zone lift, 5100 bilsteins set to stock height, rolling on 35's.The lift was installed before Zone started putting warnings about their lifts and ecodiesels sadly so I am sorta stuck with what I got.
The truck eats cv axles like they're candy, 4th set in 80000K on it, and 2 of them in the last 15K. I recently had one snap.
I got both sides replaced, but they didn't stay in their retainers, came loose, and got really floppy.
Got this lovely video of them flopping around: Floppy CV Axle
Dealership took responsibility for not having them stay seated and redid their job.
A month of no real issues, but then a week ago, making a tight off camber right, I heard two loud pops and started hearing some rotational metallic slapping, not consistent but much more rapid then tires spinning. No noticeable issues from either cv axle this time, so I pointed the go pro at the driveshaft, diff and transfer case side and got these.
Front Drive Shaft Diff Side
Drive Shaft Transfer Case Side
Both videos I was in 2wd. In the second, I put in neutral and cost a bit, the moment the drive shaft starts to spin it can produce the noise. The only other thing of visual note is the drift shaft seems to catch, slow up, speed up or down, but in a way that maybe it's binding. No noise if I am in park or neutral and not moving. Noise is even more present if I am in 4wd.
Any ideas what the issue might be here? Hoping it's the drive shaft and not a much more expensive Diff or T-case issue. Or is this just going to be a chronic issue that this truck will eat up it's front end?
The truck eats cv axles like they're candy, 4th set in 80000K on it, and 2 of them in the last 15K. I recently had one snap.
I got both sides replaced, but they didn't stay in their retainers, came loose, and got really floppy.
Got this lovely video of them flopping around: Floppy CV Axle
Dealership took responsibility for not having them stay seated and redid their job.
A month of no real issues, but then a week ago, making a tight off camber right, I heard two loud pops and started hearing some rotational metallic slapping, not consistent but much more rapid then tires spinning. No noticeable issues from either cv axle this time, so I pointed the go pro at the driveshaft, diff and transfer case side and got these.
Front Drive Shaft Diff Side
Drive Shaft Transfer Case Side
Both videos I was in 2wd. In the second, I put in neutral and cost a bit, the moment the drive shaft starts to spin it can produce the noise. The only other thing of visual note is the drift shaft seems to catch, slow up, speed up or down, but in a way that maybe it's binding. No noise if I am in park or neutral and not moving. Noise is even more present if I am in 4wd.
Any ideas what the issue might be here? Hoping it's the drive shaft and not a much more expensive Diff or T-case issue. Or is this just going to be a chronic issue that this truck will eat up it's front end?