in the past few days my 4x4 saph has developed a strange squeek, i am driving the car the leeds on friday to the football and im abit concerned!

it basicaly sounds like a slipping fan belt but seems to be coming from under the car, it only does it under load not when just rolling. The squeek also gets faster the faster you go


any ideas please?

 

possible the front prop u j!

 

maybe a mouse

 

any1 else? cant decide wether its worth the risk of driving it to leeds

 

Without hearing the squeek, its gonna be hard for anyone to suggest anything.

Why not pop along to a garage and just get them to have a listen?

They should be able to give you some idea as to what it is.

 

I agree with that

 

i think i may have left it abit late to sort anything, i thought someone may have had something similar maybe just to give me an idea if its something serious




im thinking if it is the prop i wont risk it as i have heard that if the prop goes it will mangle the fuck out of the floor

 

i had a squeak coming from the front drivers wheel/undere the car. I thought it was a wheel bearing. It turned out to be the front prop shaft uj. It cost me about 20 guid for a new one. But the squeak got faster the faster i drove.

 

sounds exactly like what mine is doing, if it is that does anybody have an idea of how likley it is to shit its pants all over the place? i really dont wanna miss the leeds game lol

 

to be honest when mine was nackered i drove all over in my car and must of done about 500 mile with it been nackered. The thing is if it goes it could make a mess off your car and could do alot of damage. If you reach under your car and give the front prop a wiggle you should be able to feel the play. The grease gets hot and goes dry. Mine was cracked and alot of the pins fell out.

 

thanks mate i will check for play and decide from there

 

No bother mate glad i could help. Its not a hard job to do either. Just remove the 4 bolts that hold the anti roll bar to the floor then remove the bolts in the prop shaft. Remove the cir clips and remove the uj/spider joint.

 

did you find out what it was?

 

nope, i drove the car to leeds in the end without an issue, the noise went away a couple days later.

Its been replaced by a new squeek now, this time the back wheel

 

Id still have a good look at the propshaft and all the uj's

My landy had the same squeek problem, getting faster with speed, then it went away so i ignored it.

A week later, i was towing a mk1 escort up to edinbrugh, had done 600miles, just out side edinbrugh the front prop uj spaped at 70 mph.

It was 2am pitch black, the truck weight 2.5 ton and the mk1 and trailer easily was another 2 ton, the the propshaft lifted my landy clear of the tarmac. the shaft battered the floor pushed my left foot up about 8" then flew off down the road.
luckily i snaked the whole thing over to the hardshoulder.

I never did find out where the prop ended up, had horrible visions of a bike hitting it!

So yeh for the sake of 10 mins checking it, and a 6 month squirt with the grease gun now. id say its well worth remembering!!!

 

Lee Ivatt - Good point well made mate

 

Lee what a story, It could of been worse.Lozi.the squeak on the back could be something as sipple as a brake caliper sticking on causing the pads to be noisey.

 

its like a squelchy squeek lol, if you try and wobble the wheel when the car is stationary it does it

 

Not always. When mine went it didn't damage the floor at all. It just took a huge chunk out of the subframe