Transmission slip?

xj4life · 02-19-2003, 10:09 PM

Lately when I accelerate from a stop light (2wd) I can feel something sliping. It seems more like play in the front driveshaft or in between the ring and pinion. It makes a knocking sound when it "engadges". I can feel play in the slip yoke in the front driveshaft but it only makes the noise when I'm in 2wd. And it was stuck in a mud hole for a couple of days up to the body awhile back. I've heard of some people having trouble with transmission sliping. What do you guys think?

MJMA · 02-19-2003, 11:15 PM

Change the tranny fluid.

Cotter_v2.0 · 02-20-2003, 09:13 AM

Tranny fluid is a good start, but the play in the driveshaft is peculiar....hmmm...

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PhantomXJ · 02-20-2003, 09:41 AM

def. check your fluid, go ahead and drop the tranny pan and put on a new filter...
as for the sound in the front driveline...could be u-joint...could be something actually in the t-case and sounds like it is...I would suggest draining that out and replaceing that...after a couple of hours of sitting in mud and water...that stuff finds everyway to get into seals and cracks...

02-19-2003, 10:09 PM	#1
xj4life Trail Guide Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: LaPorte, IN/ Wayland, MI Posts: 2,696	Lately when I accelerate from a stop light (2wd) I can feel something sliping. It seems more like play in the front driveshaft or in between the ring and pinion. It makes a knocking sound when it "engadges". I can feel play in the slip yoke in the front driveshaft but it only makes the noise when I'm in 2wd. And it was stuck in a mud hole for a couple of days up to the body awhile back. I've heard of some people having trouble with transmission sliping. What do you guys think? __________________ '08 JKU Rubicon with a bunch of mall crawlin', baby haulin' gear

02-19-2003, 11:15 PM	#2
MJMA Got Rocks? Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Rehoboth, MA, USSA Posts: 9,743	Change the tranny fluid. __________________ "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." Thomas Jefferson

02-20-2003, 09:13 AM	#3
Cotter_v2.0 Mr. Conspiracy Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 20,126	Tranny fluid is a good start, but the play in the driveshaft is peculiar....hmmm... p- __________________ Tell me why the ones that have so much make the ones that don't go mad. The price of being sober is being scared out of your mind.

02-20-2003, 09:41 AM	#4
PhantomXJ I deserved that... Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 8,012	def. check your fluid, go ahead and drop the tranny pan and put on a new filter... as for the sound in the front driveline...could be u-joint...could be something actually in the t-case and sounds like it is...I would suggest draining that out and replaceing that...after a couple of hours of sitting in mud and water...that stuff finds everyway to get into seals and cracks... __________________ We're packing ooowhops the size of trumpets!