Hello

I have been having some unfortunate noises coming from the rear of my ‘98 V70XC...(250K miles)...mainly when turning and then accelerating out of the turn. It typically makes a loud Clunk, and happens more on left turns from the right rear, but does occur on the other side once and a while.

Today the roads were snow covered so I thought I’d see if the viscous coupler would engage and test if that was the issue...when the rear wheels engaged a ratcheting sound came from the right rear drive wheel.

Any ideas? I have another couplers I could install...I did check the parking brake shoes if they were hanging up...the noise is not coming from the angle gear and does not occur when turning slowly left or right. One thing that does seem common is when the car is coasting into a turn, then accelerating out of the turn... the loud noise will occur.

Thanks for replying
Dan

 

Hello


....another possibility would be the splines stripped on the rear axel shafts? I'll have to pull this apart to see what the problem(s) are...?
Dan K

 

Anyone out there?


I would appreciate some advice before I have to tear things apart? (I did turn off the TRACS to see if this was an issue...no changes...)
Dan

 

Well...it finally warmed up here for a few days and I put in my spare VC. This seems to have taken care of this issue and a couple others. Will put some miles on to see if it lasts.