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Car start up is fine, dying out when I put in gear, clunking noise follows

Old 04-08-2018, 09:25 PM
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Car start up is fine, dying out when I put in gear, clunking noise follows

everything was fine this morning when I drove my car, I bought new intakes and planned on installing them later on, made a Home Depot run and as I was leaving Home Depot I shifted from park to drive... car dies. Did it again. Same thing happens. gave it some gas, and heard this clunking noise. I stopped immediately. I looked up kinda what I thought, which was the dirty throttle bodies and luckily I was changing out my intakes if I made it home. It was a struggle making it home. When I got home I cleaned them, installed the intakes. Went to fire up the car, it made a difference with the car not dying in R or F gear, but I’m still hearing this clunking noise and I’m pretty scared to drive on it. Has this happend to anyone? Cars at 106,000
Old 04-08-2018, 11:17 PM
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Sounds like axle or drive shaft u-joint.
Old 04-09-2018, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by kennyG37x
everything was fine this morning when I drove my car, I bought new intakes and planned on installing them later on, made a Home Depot run and as I was leaving Home Depot I shifted from park to drive... car dies. Did it again. Same thing happens. gave it some gas, and heard this clunking noise. I stopped immediately. I looked up kinda what I thought, which was the dirty throttle bodies and luckily I was changing out my intakes if I made it home. It was a struggle making it home. When I got home I cleaned them, installed the intakes. Went to fire up the car, it made a difference with the car not dying in R or F gear, but I’m still hearing this clunking noise and I’m pretty scared to drive on it. Has this happend to anyone? Cars at 106,000
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Sounds like axle or drive shaft u-joint.
it definitely sounds more like a u joint then the axle, it’s commin from underneath the middle of the car I’m gunna take it to a Mechanic today. Thanks for the reply
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Front yoke of the drive shaft is under the middle of the car. Could also be the transfer shaft going forward, or the transfer case.
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