zero play in the U-joint star ends, those are needle bearing that have no play. zero good, anyplay, is bad,
mounts are easy to test, use the classic Archimedes lever, a.k.a, a short 2x4 lumber and lever engine and trans mounts look for bad rubber, there, the rubber can fail, it feels loose.
the mount are very stiff rubber mounts, there are tons of youtube videos demonstrating all this.
if the back end if car is not jacked up the rear prop shaft (drive shaft will be ok) the maximum u-joint angles are well documented. (known)
use jack stands, never use any hydraulic, screw or other types of (nor bumper) jack and get under any car, best is 2 jack stand min;. (life and limb)a<<< sorry for captain obvious.
this is why suspension shop can find all noise, using skills and tools
keep mind this is 4wd, and the rear trasnfercase bearing can fail easy, on this car, TOWED say from an RV and that kills dead the rear nice bearing in the box.
worst of al the 3Speed, box, 2WD has silly GM bushing there and not a real ball or roller bearing, but this is not your case but others with 2wd, Oh boy.
what have I seen on u_joints, well this.
1: any play.
2: i flex it with my 2x4" (20" long?) and not hands(ok hands firs) and rust falls form bearing shell to my face, gee, end of life city.
3: bearing lands if fact
4; The seals, are wrecked, 1 to 4, mangled or hard and collapsed and dead. useles.
finding noise not easy, but u-joint bad top the list, always. not bad transfer case, but 4wd run time stated most these cars are like zero 4wd usage. (unless live in snow or do wheeling)
http://ge.tt/6gvplbp2/v/20
mounts are easy to test, use the classic Archimedes lever, a.k.a, a short 2x4 lumber and lever engine and trans mounts look for bad rubber, there, the rubber can fail, it feels loose.
the mount are very stiff rubber mounts, there are tons of youtube videos demonstrating all this.
if the back end if car is not jacked up the rear prop shaft (drive shaft will be ok) the maximum u-joint angles are well documented. (known)
use jack stands, never use any hydraulic, screw or other types of (nor bumper) jack and get under any car, best is 2 jack stand min;. (life and limb)a<<< sorry for captain obvious.
this is why suspension shop can find all noise, using skills and tools
keep mind this is 4wd, and the rear trasnfercase bearing can fail easy, on this car, TOWED say from an RV and that kills dead the rear nice bearing in the box.
worst of al the 3Speed, box, 2WD has silly GM bushing there and not a real ball or roller bearing, but this is not your case but others with 2wd, Oh boy.
what have I seen on u_joints, well this.
1: any play.
2: i flex it with my 2x4" (20" long?) and not hands(ok hands firs) and rust falls form bearing shell to my face, gee, end of life city.
3: bearing lands if fact
4; The seals, are wrecked, 1 to 4, mangled or hard and collapsed and dead. useles.
finding noise not easy, but u-joint bad top the list, always. not bad transfer case, but 4wd run time stated most these cars are like zero 4wd usage. (unless live in snow or do wheeling)
http://ge.tt/6gvplbp2/v/20
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