96XJ
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Fairfax Virginia
Just installed my gears (4.56) and a No Slip locker in my 8.25 and took it for it's first test drive today. I noticed that when turning right, I would hear a loud "POP" then a quick "jerk" from the left rear wheel (outside wheel). I had heard that lockers make popping noises and they have their little quirks, so I just chalked it up to thinking that "this was the popping noise that is associated with lockers". I figured that it was the engagement/disengagement of the locker making the noise. Well, I then made a series of left hand turns (with the driver's side on the inside of the turn) and there is no noise. No popping. No jerking. No nothing. So i start making right turns again and the popping and jerking comes back. Start turning left and it is gone. I called Randy's Ring and Pinion's tech line and all they could tell me was that it must have been installed incorrectly. I figured that much but I was looking for help. That wasn't the help I was looking for. I know that I am going to have to go back in and teart the rear apart but what should I look for that could possibly cause this loud popping and jerking only when I turn right?