Rattling Noise

[Matthew K]

Whenever I'm stopped, but in drive, a vibration/rattling seems to come from the gear selector area of my 95 XJ Sport. But when I put the Jeep in Neutral, the vibration/rattling goes away. I've found that the vibration is stronger around the transfer case selector. Does anybody have any ideas as to what this could be?? Thanks!

Matt

[JJ13]

annoying??? :D

[mudhound32]

You may want to check the cross member and the exaust. Both have been known to cause an annoying rattle at certain low rpms.

[martin]

sounds like a bad heat shield on your cat coverter, they are known to rattle.

If you crawl under you XJ and find the exhaust pipe sitting on the cross member then you are in need of a transmission mount. It hard to tell if a mount is good or not by examining it. Most of us do not know what a new vs used mount looks like.

I check for a loose heat shield but think it a a bad mount, if so you should replace the 2 engine mounts at the same time. The engine mounts and trans mount are the only support the engine & transmisison assy. If one is bad then the other 2 are close behince.

You will get options on what to use, evaluate for yourself and choose. I purchased mine at the dealer since I do go for 7-10 hour drives in my XJ. I do not want to be beat up by engine vibrations.