Aha! I've had a weird shudder and knocking sound when accelerating hard, especially uphill. Sounds like this could be the culprit. Do I
More likely is the center driveline bearing support. Especially if it sounds like the gnomes are underneath your seat whacking on the floor with mallets under hard acceleration. The center of the driveline is not held in place and it gets an angle in it and starts being thrown against the tunnel.
just undo the bolts and then slip it out?
Not quite that easy, there are collars that mate. You usually have to loosen the spline clamp (in the middle), and the center bearing support so that the driveline can collapse a bit to clear the centering collars. (By prying.) It's fairly easy to do, but a hammer and a prybar are usually necessary to get things apart. If you do remove the whole driveline, which you have to do to address the center bearing and support, make sure that you mark the driveline so that the two halves go back together exactly as they came apart. The balancing will be wrong if you don't. See: http//cathey.dogear.com/JSLdline.html -- Jim
