Ericus

My truck has had this slight squeak while rolling at low speed for a while. Recently it has gotten worse though. It sounds like two pieces of metal squeaking/scraping together (it's really high-pitched), and then when I coast at speeds above 30 it makes a sort of metal flexing sound. I have not noticed any change in the performance, but I have a feeling this is going to just get worse if it's not fixed. My girlfriend's dad and I tried to figure out what it could be and he came up with a possible bad driveshaft bearing. Does anyone know if the symptoms match the possible cause?

Thanks,

Eric

SpeedJunkie

U-Joint maybe?

Ericus

Yeah that was another idea he had. How does that work though like how would that be the cause of the squeaking? I know what it is but I'm trying to picture what it would be scraping or rubbing against to make the noise.

SpeedJunkie

Usually U-Joints get vibration when they are going bad. I don't know if they ever sqeak when going bad but it would be something I look at.

Ericus

Did a search for the u-joint and having the same issues and I got a lot of matches for exactly this problem. Thanks a lot for your help.


Eric