Thread: Posi Rear Ends
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Old 05-12-2009, 02:23 PM
RICK LAKE RICK LAKE is offline
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Default Chatter in the rear end

YerDuliness Dude,If you are getting tire hop, that is a suspension problem. If you are getting chatter from the posi, this is early WARNING problems. The easy way is to flush the flush from the rearend and install new fluid and 2 small bottles of posi additive to the rearend. THIS IS IMPORTANT, Go to an open area and do circles at slow speed, 5MPH. Do this 10 times to the right and 10 times to the left. Tight circles. This does 2 things, it helps get the fluid in between the clutches in the carrier and it does not heat up the fluid to fast. After this is done try and do a small WET BURN OUT to see if both tires are spinning. This will not hurt the drivetrain as much as a dry one. If one tire spins and the other doesn't, you are ready for a posi repair unless you like the chatter and open rearend traction. The clutches are wornout and when too much play is in the carrier, something will break. The other thing is quit punching it around a turn. This speeds up the failure rate of the discs in the carrier. It may look cool but just doing damage. You can get rebuilding kits for the posi and replace the clutch pack. This is alot cheaper that replacing the carrier. Just my 2 cents Rick L.
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