Finally have gotten rid of the click noise. You would have thought that after the driveline got rebuilt that you could rule out the driveline. But no. Several things were done to solve it. The CV joint angle was too steep and it's parts were hitting each other. See pics below showing how tight the clearance was. All it took was a little shift up in the diff, as in acceleration, for the clearance to go away. Here are the steps I took to get rid of the problem.

- Dialed in the driveline angles. Still had the sound but no consistently. On hills and slopes mostly.
- Had the CV 'clearanced'. That is, ground down and hollowed out, then rebalanced. This cleared up most of it. Only heard the noise on occasion but it was still knocking around. So almost.
- Raised the engine 1". This has the effect of slanting the tranny/tcase downward toward the diff and smoothing the CV angle. Used JKS' 1" spacer block. Easy job. Problem has gone away.

Here's the kind of clearance I'm talking about. This is with the cap shaved and etc. I know it looks like a lot in the pic but consider the zoom.



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The Teralow is in the rig and man can it crawl. My driveway is on about a 10 degree slope and it moves up in in 4th gear!

I still have that dang 'clicking' noise. Sounds like a rock in the tire but:

- Goes away when the clutch is pressed
- Goes away when the rear driveline is removed.
- Rear driveline has been rebuilt and balanced.
- Vehicle, with it's long arm lift, rides like a Caddy.
- No vibrations
- Doesn't do it in reverse
- All gears

Any ideas? Anyone?

matty i had a similar problem recently,and it turned out being ,rear driveshaft with cv jt. was hitting u jt. but it only happened when i had too much droop on the short arm kit. probly not your problem seems how you have the la kit.lets get a run in soon.later ken.a slickrock poker run is set for july 14 with ca4wd.it just so happens,our yearly camping trip in bear valley is that weekend, later.

ken, planing on the Hunter Lake trip on the 9th. See the Norcal section.

Finally have gotten rid of the click noise. You would have thought that after the driveline got rebuilt that you could rule out the driveline. But no. Several things were done to solve it. The CV joint angle was too steep and it's parts were hitting each other. See pics below showing how tight the clearance was. All it took was a little shift up in the diff, as in acceleration, for the clearance to go away. Here are the steps I took to get rid of the problem.

- Dialed in the driveline angles. Still had the sound but no consistently. On hills and slopes mostly.
- Had the CV 'clearanced'. That is, ground down and hollowed out, then rebalanced. This cleared up most of it. Only heard the noise on occasion but it was still knocking around. So almost.
- Raised the engine 1". This has the effect of slanting the tranny/tcase downward toward the diff and smoothing the CV angle. Used JKS' 1" spacer block. Easy job. Problem has gone away.

Here's the kind of clearance I'm talking about. This is with the cap shaved and etc. I know it looks like a lot in the pic but consider the zoom.



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Glad you got it fixed,sometimes driveline noises are a real pain.