So.... last week I started hearing a squeaking... only when i let off the gas...

Last night it developed into a lurching (push pull type... worse under turns)... logic says it is the front especially when it stopped in 4wd (figured front behaved better under power.

I was up til midnight trying to figure it out... I thought front drive shaft, bad control arm bushing, rod ends, something with the front axle...

Had it on jack stands and moved everything... nothing stuck out as a problem...

today i get up... get on 695, and the rear drive shaft explodes out from under the jeep right at 295...

limped home in 4H and it rode like a million bucks... no vibrations, shutters, nothing...

so... now I have to scrounge for a stock rear shaft (shaft comes out of t-case, but between it and the diff yolk there is nothing else...) or try to hit my parents up for a loan til april to get an sye kit in...

If I go second route I will also due the 1" motor lift, oil pan, oil pan skid, teraflex belly up t-case skid combo all in 1 shot... I have everything but the sye gathered for that...

what a great week so far...

the kicker is I knew a ujoint was going... didn't know which one... and none of the auto parts stores had one in stock last week (tried salvo who doesn't even have it in the system... pep boys (5 locations), advanced, and auto zone...

Belated birthday gift from the jeep i guess.

i might have a slipyoke shaft for that jeep, it came out of mine when i upgraded. i will look for it if you are interested

Damages...

http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t65/prophoto26/Driveshaft%20Damage/

Got a used drive shaft... didn't fit... looked at the cost of a new shaft and might as well wait for the CV style with SYE upgrade...

So next month is the big project once it arrives...

1" Motor lift (MORE bombproof)
New oil pan (since part of the install is to remove mounts anyway)
Skid Row oil pan skid (new pan needs armor)
Teraflex Belly Up Skid plate (raise T-Case to frame rails)
SYE kit (since TCase is pulled to transfer plates)
New custom rear shaft (since SYE and mine is somewhere along 695)

I still have the waterpump project... I have a Flex A Lite electric fan so I can try to adapt the Flowmaster Hi Flow pump... but that project is on hold til the drive line is back together again... Jeep wheeled without overheating... just left a few drips so I could find my way back...

My collection of parts grew to the point where the neighbors complained they were on the patio, so I had to move them inside to my closet... fun wow...