Have I got a lemon or what? First the trans now this!!!
Just got home from work.....on my way home was going up a slight gradient and something broke suddenly it now feels like my propshaft is hitting the floor...with a bad knocking noise...something has broken...any ideas? have looked underneath but can't see anything wrong.......man I am so annoyed at less than 10,000 miles!!!! never launched it in it's life

 

well maybe your problem stems from the fact that you're driving a boat.

but seriously, the driveshaft would have to have been on schindlers list to be that messed up after only 10,000 mi. take it to mitsu and demand that they inspect it for free.

 

Sorry I am English what would you call a propshaft a "driveshaft?"if so what do you call the driveshafts....is it axles?

 

I'd call the thing that goes from the engine to the back of the car the driveshaft, and the things from the diffs to the wheels the propshafts or half-shafts... or maybe driveshafts. But in you saying propshaft, I, for one, understood what you meant.

Can you crawl under the car and look at the shafts? Or maybe one of your bearings went.

 

Limey,

Was is it raining when you heard the noise. i.e. wet pavement?

Speedlimit...

 

What bearings? I have put the car on ramps and nothing seems out of place...do you mean the bearings that support the driveshaft...there seems to be a few spots of grease on the cat heatshield...but nothing I would consider out of place or abnormal...the sound seems to be coming from below the E brake handle and it gets worse when making a turn...thanks in advance for your intrest and imput

 

Yes it was I had got on it a bit on a right hander just before the hill ....when I backed off at the top of the hill this awful noise started .....any ideas?

 

The bearings I was talking about were the ones at the ends of the propshafts in the CV joints. You wouldn't be able to see those since they're in the CV boots. But it sounds like your problem is more central, like in the main driveshaft, since you say the noise is under the E-brake.

Hmmmm, dunno. I'd have to look under my car to get some ideas. If I remember correctly the driveshaft is 3 pieces, so maybe one of those joints is fouled up somehow.

 

Thanks for helping ....Speedlimit sounded like he knew what the deal was....but then he logged out

 

Sorry to hear about the banging. I hope Mitsu gets it fixed quickly!

How is your Evo shifted? Hard? frequently? Also you mentioned backing off as you approached the top of the incline? Were you at full throttle, or hard acceleration.?

 

Is it ticking or clunking like? and more so when turning? Check your front half-shafts, if so.

 

Newsflash....just went out for a blast....did not make a sound...I really punished it...but I could not get the noise to return...maybe it was the rear diff doing something wierd.... I will drive it for the next few and see what happens

 

Half throttle at top of incline.....I shift normally...being English I have driven shift all of my life....I do shift often

 

It was clunking like someone was beating the bottom of the car with a club hammer!!!

 

Does it clunk with engine speed or vehicle speed?


If engine speed, does it do it while in gear? clutch depressed or not?