2002 GMC Sonoma driveline chatter and bad vibration

2002 GMC SONOMA
110,000 MILES • 6 CYL • 2WD • AUTOMATIC
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FILTHY
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started w/ chatter from underneath somewhere been doing it for quite a while. just recently starting making alot of noise underneath.I sat in the back of truck while someone else drove looked in between the cab & bed and could see drive shaft move side to side. I replace center support bearing could still hear light chatter drove about 70 miles now back to same clunking back and forth loud noise .the shop that pressed bearing on said u joint looked fine(driveline is 2 peace & has 3 u joints). thanx
Mar 20, 2009 at 8:44 PM
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JAMES W.
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If your hanger bearing was that bad, you've probably have a U-joint or 2 that have followed suite. Worse case scenario, you bent a shaft and it doesn't take much to throw it out of balance.
Mar 20, 2009 at 9:56 PM