crashing_sux
Blow Me?
So I was coming home from the track Saturday night and I heard a loud rubbing/grinding (I'm not real good at differentiating those two) noise along with a brief screeching/squealing type noise while I was cruising along at 60mph. I immediately pulled over and found the noise to be speed related, it got much worse over 10mph. I drove it a mile home and today threw it up on jackstands and put it in drive. At 20mph all of the wheels are spinning except the left front. If I give it some gas the left front will start spinning but as soon as I let off the gas the left front stops, while the other wheels keep spinning.
Seems like this must be the problem area, but how do I identify it further? Not knowing much about the drivetrain I'm guessing possible culprits are brakes, wheel bearing, CV joint, or something in the front end? Anything else?
How should I check this out? I'm wondering about CV, as I get a little bit of clunking while backing up and turning and the shop that aligned my truck for me warned me that I may have alignment problems driving around with my front end so low. How do I test that? Brakes would be my first guess with how quickly it stops when I let off the gas but I can't see how that would be, they stop fine when I press the gas and when I let off of them how would there be any pressure in the caliper to cause extra drag? I can turn the wheel by hand, although it's a little hard to do. It's also difficult to tell where the problem is because the left and right wheels are tied together, so if I spin the left front forward I'm spinning the right front backwards (which I'm guessing is a normal part of the differential operation?).
Any tips? Seems like I may be lucky this time and not end up having to pay too much for this one, but I need to get it resolved today if I'm going to be going to the Canadian Nats so if you have any ideas for me let's hear 'em.
Seems like this must be the problem area, but how do I identify it further? Not knowing much about the drivetrain I'm guessing possible culprits are brakes, wheel bearing, CV joint, or something in the front end? Anything else?
How should I check this out? I'm wondering about CV, as I get a little bit of clunking while backing up and turning and the shop that aligned my truck for me warned me that I may have alignment problems driving around with my front end so low. How do I test that? Brakes would be my first guess with how quickly it stops when I let off the gas but I can't see how that would be, they stop fine when I press the gas and when I let off of them how would there be any pressure in the caliper to cause extra drag? I can turn the wheel by hand, although it's a little hard to do. It's also difficult to tell where the problem is because the left and right wheels are tied together, so if I spin the left front forward I'm spinning the right front backwards (which I'm guessing is a normal part of the differential operation?).
Any tips? Seems like I may be lucky this time and not end up having to pay too much for this one, but I need to get it resolved today if I'm going to be going to the Canadian Nats so if you have any ideas for me let's hear 'em.
