I have a 1980 CJ5, 4 speed, Dana 30 in the front, AMC 20 in the rear. I think the Jeep had a 6 cylinder in it to begin with but now has a 304. This is the problem... When you pour the coal to the Jeep it makes a treibble sound coming from the back end of the Jeep. Sounds like a chain drive slipping over the teeth on a sprocket. It will slip some and then grabs and away you go. It does it in any gear and when you slip it from Reverse to forward without coming to a complete stop. So, I took the inspection cover off the rearend (because that is where the sound was coming from. I thought?) One of the shafts on the spider gears was worn but things looked good otherwise. I took the transfer case out and it looks really good also. So I tried to take the rearend completely apart. I assume this Jeep has the two piece tappered axles and I can't get the wheel hub off the axle shaft to get at the keepers. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong as to getting the axles out or ideas about the terrible sound when you get on it?? Thanks,
1980 CJ5 Running gear troubles.
Oct 31, 2005
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Bill: I don't understand the four bolts and backing plate? Are you refering to the four bolts that hold the brake housing and all that together? I took off those four bolts on one side but still can't get the axle out of the tube. Where are the keepers that hold this all together? Thanks for the jpg. I already ruinned one puller. Maybe to much of the BMFH
The sound is not necessarily coming from the rear axle. Sounds like this can travel through the frame or drive train components, or even echo, and seem to come from a completely different place than the actual source. I remember a noise in a van, that everyone thought had a bad rear end, that turned out to be a bad front wheel bearing. I think that you have a clutch problem. Rear ends, transfer cases, and manual transmissions do not usually "slip some and then grab". Since you already have the transfer case out, you are part way to finding the problem. Bill is right. If you take that hub and axle apart, it may not work right when you put it back together.
My opinions and I deserve a lot more respect now, as I just found out, that I am going to be a grandpa for the first time. I don't know if they will listen to me, but if it is a girl I want them to call her Arizona.
Earle
Congratulations on your impending Grandpaness.
Yeah, I'd like to know that too. I've got kids in their 30's and they
*still* don't listen...even when I'm right.-- Old Crow '82 FLTC-P "Pearl" '95 Wrangler YJ TOMKAT, SENSA, BS#133, MAMBM, SLOB#13, DH#2
The last time I asked my daughter about grandkids I was presented the next day with my Grand Puppy Zoë.
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Yes, but if I go say so myself Zoë is cuter...
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Interestingly Zoë gets violently carsick in vehicles other than the two Jeep I have had. The XJ is in the pix album above when she was a pup and two weeks ago she went on a road trip to Tennessee with no problems.
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