4SinAir Member 125 Member For: 16y 5m 23d Gender: Male Location: morley, perth Posted 03/12/09 10:54 AM Share Posted 03/12/09 10:54 AM tighten the sh*t out of your u bolts that's holding the diff down an that's all it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyhorse Member 14 Member For: 16y 27d Gender: Female Location: Brisbane Posted 06/03/10 02:13 AM Share Posted 06/03/10 02:13 AM Is the noise you guys getting a creak or more a clunk noise? Mines been doing it since 15,000km, I told them about it when I got them to stiffen the suspension up during this service. Its now doubled that km and have taken it into 2 dealerships, neither of them can find out whats wrong with it. First dealership (where I bought the car from) replaced the tail shaft... still makes the noise. So they booked it in to replace the entire diff... I moved and took it to another dealership where they said there was nothing wrong with the diff (old dealership said there was 15mm backlash, which new dealership said is normal?) and they couldn't find a thing wrong with it. They 'think' it might be a loose bolt in the tray body somewhere? Awesome... It usually always happens when you reverse, pull it into drive and accelerate.Also does it accelerating through gears- usually between 2 & 3rd below 50kms, and leaving at the lights.Am going to check out suspension after seeing those photos above... but I am sure its a weight movement thing like mentioned above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAfalcon Member 5 Member For: 15y 2m 6d Gender: Male Posted 19/04/10 10:13 AM Share Posted 19/04/10 10:13 AM This happened to my ute after I got it lowered. I did some reserch and found that after driving in the rain and then letting the car sit. The leaf springs build up 'rust dust' in between the springs which creates the creaking. Just wash them out really good (in between the springs) and you should spray all of that built up rust dust between them and will prevent the noise for a while, obvioulsy it will always build up after a while so you just have to give them a spray every now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stazza_Brendan Donating Members 686 Member For: 15y 3m 29d Gender: Male Location: Mackay QLD Posted 20/04/10 01:48 AM Share Posted 20/04/10 01:48 AM (edited) After reading this I tightened up the U-bolts holding the diff to the leafs. While not totally lose it didnt take much effort to tighten them up another turn or more. Front bolts seemed more lose then the rears.This is a pic of the drivers side u-bolts, notice the gap at the front compared to no gap at the rear. I didnt get a pic of the passenger side before tightening them but it seemed slightly worse then the drivers side.BTW its a BF2 auto with 53,000km Edited 20/04/10 01:49 AM by Stazza_Brendan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornado164 Member 3 Member For: 14y 9m 12d Posted 28/04/10 09:05 AM Share Posted 28/04/10 09:05 AM yeh I suffered from this problem for a while, thinking it was my tail shaft but got under and checked the u bolts and that was my problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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