I have a 1997 Hijet S110P and I've been having some front driveline noise for awile. I checked the wheel bearings and eventually replaced them and no difference. So I figured i would wait for "something" to happen and today it did. I heard that "week, week, week" metal on metal sound and figured a bearing inthe front diff (passenger side) finally gave up the ghost. Here are some pictures of the bearing-does anything look like it is missing? There was a few scratches but the bearing spins freely and "looks" ok. I don't want to take the entire diff apart for nothing. Thanks, Ralph in Winnipeg
Do some looking around at other things that rotate. Sometime back my little rig developed a terrible noise that I was sure had to be a bad bearing to do with the driveline somewhere. Got it up in the air and could find no noises while turning driveline & wheels by hand. Just laying there underneath and trying to think of what to check next and just happened to bump the left front wheel causing it to rotate a bit and discovered the noise. A small metallic rock had somehow lodged between the disk brake rotor and the dust shield. Gave the shield a slight twist and the rock fell out. As ttc says "can't see the pics" Fred
Ok, I determined that my transfer case is not disengaging and the front drive shaft is turning all the time. I used my vacuum gauge tool to disengage it but now I can't go into 4x4 without having to go back in and disengage manually. At least I know what it is, now to figure out if it is the switch or the vacuum that is not working.
OK ttc, thanks for the advice/offer. I'm going to have to do some research into how to check the vsv. The vacuum lines are in the right place as I haven't moved any. I'll get motivated and look it over and see if there are obvious cracked lines. Thanks, Ralph in Winnipeg
A bit of advice from an Old Old Mechanic - You state "The vacuum lines are in the right place as I haven't moved any", Check a vacuum diagram as you don't know what someone did before you got the vehicle and you are only assuming the lines are correct. Fred