Cariboo4x4
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My backhoe loader, I noticed today making an audible clunking noise. I diagnosed it coming from in rear differential. It would not clunk going really slow yet in 2nd it would get loud and occur once for each revolution of rear wheels. I continued for a 1/2 hour just going real slow to clear a pile of dirt and rocks off our driveway. Stupid me, I should of parked it and did a couple more pushes with loader into dirt and rocks I had piled up with hoe. The last push the bucket must hung up and I gave it some more throttle and thats when I heard a loud slipping noise like a spinning a bicycle spokes past a playing card. Yet louder and sharper. Because we live on a mountain side I had to go up our steep driveway and the clunking was louder. It has differential brakes which I used alot this past spring on ice\snow when we were doing some small scale logging. Mabe some thing came loose or a broken gear tooth? I will remove seat and top diff cover over the next few days. I will put it up on blocks so I can rotate wherls since stabilzers leak down.