U-Joints Failure

spencevans · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 9:32 pm

Has any else had their U-Joints fail. Dealer had replace mine at 15K miles.
And no I don't hot rod my Liberty.

donlvnv · **Posted:** Mon May 08, 2006 11:53 pm

What was your KJ doing that made them replace it. I am having a clunk from the rear of the vehicle. I can feel it thru my automatic gear shift as well as hear it. Them have had it for a week with no solution. It clunks when I come to a stop.

Cowcatcher · **Posted:** Tue May 09, 2006 12:50 am

Mine has always seemed a little slack but so was the new Rubicon I drove, the old CJ I drove years back and my daughters boy friends Wrangler. I just figured it was a Jeep thing.

spencevans · **Posted:** Tue May 09, 2006 7:11 pm

donlvnv wrote:

What was your KJ doing that made them replace it. I am having a clunk from the rear of the vehicle. I can feel it thru my automatic gear shift as well as hear it. Them have had it for a week with no solution. It clunks when I come to a stop.

Just had it in for a scheduled oil change and the said the ujoints were shot so the replaced them. I did not notice a difference as far as shaking but fuel milage did go up 2 mpg immediately following the repair.

europachris · **Posted:** Wed May 10, 2006 9:49 am

donlvnv wrote:

What was your KJ doing that made them replace it. I am having a clunk from the rear of the vehicle. I can feel it thru my automatic gear shift as well as hear it. Them have had it for a week with no solution. It clunks when I come to a stop.

We had a clunking issue with our '05 CRD. First round at the dealer they replaced both lower front ball joints as well as the track bar joint on top of the rear diff housing. It still clunked. It would clunk when you came to a stop and clunk again when you accelerated. Turned out to be a loose passenger side motor mount. Once that was torqued properly, all was well.

No issues with the u-joints (yet), but I would be apalled that with 20k miles, we would have failed ball joints, u-joints, track bar joint, and a locked up rear caliper (the Holy Smoking Brakes thread).

The CRD motor might be a nice piece of kit, but the chassis they put it in is a piece of cr*p. I can't believe the Liberty suspension and drivetrain is so problem-plagued after this many years in production....

Chris

Inet_CRD · **Posted:** Wed May 10, 2006 2:21 pm

I noticed a 'clunk' putting it into Drive from park or neutral. Had assumed it was just a bit of slack in the transfer case but it might be worth checking out at the dealership.

donlvnv · **Posted:** Fri May 19, 2006 10:29 am

They have had it for a second week and still cant figure out what is my Clunk is caused by when stopping.

marauderer · **Posted:** Fri May 19, 2006 4:30 pm

donlvnv wrote:

They have had it for a second week and still cant figure out what is my Clunk is caused by when stopping.

Your Dealer has a problem if they need two weeks to diagnose your problem.

They are blowing you off as they don't have the answer and are not working on it to figure it out. :oops:

Your CRD is just sitting out on the back lot waiting for someone to come up with a WAFG on what the problem is.

You might consider getting the District/ Regional Rep involved so they will talk to the big guys at the factory and get a resolution. JMHO!!

donlvnv · **Posted:** Sat May 20, 2006 12:59 am

I called today and they have a call into Jeep engineering about the problem.

BCool · **Posted:** Sat May 20, 2006 1:21 am

Let me guess your taking yours into Integrity too. They told me there was another guy with the same issues. Check out my clunk thread. They told me they are talking with engineering as well. I've started a buy back on it hopefully I can get out of it.

RFCRD · **Posted:** Sat May 20, 2006 7:20 am

BCool wrote:

Let me guess your taking yours into Integrity too. They told me there was another guy with the same issues. Check out my clunk thread. They told me they are talking with engineering as well. I've started a buy back on it hopefully I can get out of it.

I'm hearing a simillar clunk. I think it's in the trans. Mine showed up when my trans started dropping out of gear and not backing uphill. According to my dealer it's just another one of my imaginary friends.

donlvnv · **Posted:** Sat May 20, 2006 12:04 pm

Yes I am, I didn't see your clunk thread.

BCool wrote:

Let me guess your taking yours into Integrity too. They told me there was another guy with the same issues. Check out my clunk thread. They told me they are talking with engineering as well. I've started a buy back on it hopefully I can get out of it.

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