TECH TIPS

THE OLD GRIND

I recently inherited some property that included a 1952 M38 that had been stored in a barn for many years. It only took a few days to get the Jeep running, and it drove so well that we could not figure out why it had been parked for so long. But when we drove it out on the road, it began to make a metallic grinding sound from the rear axle. This sound did not occur all the time. It seemed to happen whenever we coasted downhill, but sometimes it would go away even at these times. It