Truck going in Wednesday for surgery. Doctors/Techs were mumbling things...Transfer Case? Rear? Tranny?
Symptoms..."clunking and grinding" while going from park to reverse. "Clunk" from drive to park with a "Buzz" in there as well. Doesn't make any nosies shifting while driving. 12,000 miles, no off-road use. No racing, just back and forth to soccer, cargo delivery,and Florida once. Winning diagnosis gets a date with a supermodel, a new 08 Ram and a trip around the world. Everyone else gets to buy me a beer.

 

Hopefully next thursday i will get to drop mine off for the same excat problem i only have 6k on mine

 

deffinitly sounds like a trans problem...let us know what they find

 

Sounds like tranny to me. Answer this. when you park are you on a grade of any kind and if you are do you put the car in neutral, set the parking brake, let off the foot pedal brake then put in park?

 

Not on any grade it still does it on completely flat ground.

 

Jimmy,
It happens on flat surface. I always put my foot on the brake first, then go from park to reverse, I hear a clunk then a slight pause...then a very faint grind as if it can't get into gear...then it's in reverse. Going from reverse to drive, I put my foot on the brake, shift from reverse to drive, clunk, it goes in. Only hearing grinding noise when reverse is involved. Just "clunking" from any other gear. I've never placed it in neutral and then set the parking brake, then into park. I've never even driven this truck hard. No overweight loads. Treated it kind. I have to say I'm a little more than dissapointed it's got a problem. Just got out of a Town and Country loaded, and I had nothing but problems with that, but some of that was the stuff I was hauling inside. Hopefully this isn't anything big. Fingers crossed but it's just the hassle that's a pain.

 

So what's the out come, I had my friend get in the truck and go from d to p and d to r and so on and it's the rear end that's making all the noise it's taking the back lash out of it. but that's alot of back lash. I take mine in on monday

 

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Sorry for the delay, the outcome, well, there is no outcome. Two service techs said it was either the tranny or the rear, make an appointment, I did, and when the wife picked it up there was no paper work, the service Mgr said they changed the fluid in the transfer case, and to drive it for a while, and when I checked it after the wife brought home, it grinds like Beyonce. Hands in the air, I'd like to say I just don't care, but I'm pretty frustrated at this point. A wasted day without the truck.

 

sounds like the tranny to me as well.