i have a 97 4x4 4.6 liter and from take off i have a clicking sound in the back sounds like by the rearend sounds like a stick stuck and hitting the wheel but nothing under the truck any one have any ideas and hopefully not the rearend? thanks

 

Check to see if one of your "friends" put a tie wrap on your drive shaft.

 

One single click, or numerous ones whenever your driving.

 

a bunch of clicks does not stop
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or a rock in your hub caps if your truck has hub caps. I had a friend do that once to me. Then a few months later away from home I heard it again. This time a lug nut came off. eek!

 

Check u-joints.

 

Here I fixed it for you. Somehow a period managed to sneak in between the 4, and the 6.

 

Now to be a little more serious. Does it have disk or drums in the back? There are a lot of small parts inside of drum brakes that can rust out and rattle around in there. I would pop them off it it has them.

 

Even the disc brakes have drum in the rear for the park brake. The center or the rotor is the drum.

I know it's stupid but hey not my design........

Mine clicked at slow speeds like a rock in the tire for a year before I finally tore into both sides and found that my driver side park drum brake entire assembly had come apart.
Got the rebuild kits for both sides but it had the wrong adjusters and my old ones were froze. So took everything out, and put the rest back together and have never found the right adjusters. Apparently on mine they have 2-3-4 different ones....... Mine is one of the other ones that aren't as common so I have to order it..... Never think of it when I'm in town. Mines automatic transmission so I don't use the Park brake.....

 

I'm not trying to be funny... but it was funny when I did it to my Dad's Windstar just to see how far he'd go with it...

I put two dimes and a nickel in his center cab on his van... and he had to drive 120 miles with that aweful racket. After he got done with a meeting, he took it to a Ford dealer where he was, and they gave him back the change, but charged him $10 to fix it.

Don't ask what happened to me when he got home... :o

 

Make sure that your parking brake cable is not rubbing on the back left tire. With 12.5" wide tires and stock rims mine does it all the time. It makes a clicking noise until I get up to speed where there's too much road noise to hear it.

 

thanks to everyone who gave input it was the u-joint no problem now thanks guys

 

How much was a set of U-joints?