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  1. rickf

    Bottom end noise: tap/light knock & chirp? Advice needed!

    If you think it is a u-joint better check them out now. If that front joint on the rear shaft breaks it will be an a first class ride to he!!. The shaft will drop, whip around to the side and if you are lucky the rear joint will break right away. Does not usually happen that way and it can do...
  2. rickf

    Bottom end noise: tap/light knock & chirp? Advice needed!

    A bad lifter will give a tap but not a chirp and generally it will tap under load and not. I have a bad lifter in mine, it comes and goes but it is always a tap and it does not matter about the load. Rick
  3. rickf

    Bottom end noise: tap/light knock & chirp? Advice needed!

    Sometimes but not always. They will be around the flywheel bolts. A trick I have used in the past is to spray water up in there and let it sit for a day or two. If there are cracks you will generally see fresh rust tracks after a day. The longer you wait the better you will see the rust, up to a...
  4. rickf

    Bottom end noise: tap/light knock & chirp? Advice needed!

    Sounds like a cracked flywheel. Pull the flywheel cover and look around the mounting bolts to the crankshaft.
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