oh crap whats that noise

[07JeepXK]

Just went for a spin and heard the noise too! Interesting i've never heard that before... but I can't remember the last time my Jeep sat outside in that cold, and I normally don't hit the gas that hard to accelerate.

Will have to see if it does it tomorrow morning after sitting in the garage all night.

It's -5 out where I live and my jeep isn't making the noise you guys are talking about. I feel left out lol

[johnr]

please don't feel left out is is not a nice sound.
So as far as the ice build up theory goes im not sold. my drive to and from work is only about 4 miles each way. but giving the theory a chance I though id try to break it loose before I left work today. before I pulled out of the parking lot I held the brake and put it in gear and torqued up the mounts forward and back and let it roll a bit then hit the brakes hard to flex off any ice. I left the parking lot and once I was straight on the road, accelerated and there it was again. sounds just like im feeding an ice crusher to make a slushy. by the time I get to my street it usually will not do it anymore but there is a nice icy patch in front of the house. so just to hear the sound of the track control is stopped and jumped on it a bit, that is defenatly a different sound.

[Matt]

^^That's kind of what I was planning on testing out tomorrow.

Yesterday i was driving through snow and some deep plow piles for fun, so I know i had a lot of snow packed under my engine that could have melted and turned to ice chunks. Being in my garage tonight that'll ALL be gone and i was going to see if the noise comes back after not having any snow/ice in the drivetrain.