clunk

When going over speed bumps at an angle or while turning on top of
them, I get a mild clunk on one side or the other up front. At first I
heard it when going straight over the speed bumps and thout it might be
the splined portion of the drive shaft (that comes out of the manual
tranny sliding in and out of the tranny. It took me a while to figure
out how to get the noise repeatably.Now I am wondering whether it might
be motor mounts or soemthing similar?

Any thoughts ?

Sorry, I forgot this is on a 92 4x4 XtraCab pickup with a V6.


crashq wrote:[color=blue]
> When going over speed bumps at an angle or while turning on top of
> them, I get a mild clunk on one side or the other up front. At first I
> heard it when going straight over the speed bumps and thout it might be
> the splined portion of the drive shaft (that comes out of the manual
> tranny sliding in and out of the tranny. It took me a while to figure
> out how to get the noise repeatably.Now I am wondering whether it might
> be motor mounts or soemthing similar?
>
> Any thoughts ?[/color]

"crashq" <crashq@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:1152807752.156147.181420@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> Sorry, I forgot this is on a 92 4x4 XtraCab pickup with a V6.
>
>
> crashq wrote:[color=green]
>> When going over speed bumps at an angle or while turning on top of
>> them, I get a mild clunk on one side or the other up front. At first I
>> heard it when going straight over the speed bumps and thout it might be
>> the splined portion of the drive shaft (that comes out of the manual
>> tranny sliding in and out of the tranny. It took me a while to figure
>> out how to get the noise repeatably.Now I am wondering whether it might
>> be motor mounts or soemthing similar?
>>
>> Any thoughts ?[/color][/color]

Could be a lot of things but one thing that I'd definitely look for were it
mine is worn ball joints. A failure there can ruin your whole day.
--
Mike Harris
Austin, TX

What about suspension bushings?



"crashq" <crashq@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:1152807677.541415.175740@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> When going over speed bumps at an angle or while turning on top of
> them, I get a mild clunk on one side or the other up front. At first I
> heard it when going straight over the speed bumps and thout it might be
> the splined portion of the drive shaft (that comes out of the manual
> tranny sliding in and out of the tranny. It took me a while to figure
> out how to get the noise repeatably.Now I am wondering whether it might
> be motor mounts or soemthing similar?
>
> Any thoughts ?
>[/color]