Clanking noise from under the truck

Hey y’all. So today. I experience some kind of noise. Sounds like is coming under from my truck? Is sound like clicking noise. Or something like to metal bar hitting one another. It happens when I reverse and then it’ll happen again when I put it in D and drive away.

 

How about looking under the truck?

 

It’s probably the brake pads shifting.

 

I never experience this before

 

How loud? Could the chain on the spare be hanging down through the rim?

 

I second this. If you search my posts, I have one from years ago where this was a pretty common phenomenon with 2nd Gens at least...

If it is brake pad slap, it is a pretty low cost easy fix. I think i even posted the parts and what to do...

 

Gen 3. Possibility TSB?

 

@QuicksandTaco my brake is making noise when I press on it.

 

@JEEPNIK thanks. I’ll check.

 

Yeah, check under the truck. Could be something as simple as something you picked up on the road or an angry co worker f-----g with you. No kidding, I've seen all kinds of cruel automotive jokes. Bolts placed behind hubcaps, a thick slice of limburger on the radiator etc. Tacos are easy to get under.

 

U-Joints?

 

I really appreciate the help y’all. And yes. That day, me and my son was out and about all day. I’ll totally check my truck today.

 

Sounds like axle wrap if it's only happening when you are stopped and changing gears/direction of travel. Sounds like a metallic clank when you have foot on the brake and move gear shift from Park to Drive, or Drive to Reverse. Maybe louder when engine RPMs are bit higher on cold engine. Sounds like it is coming from rear area of vehicle. If these are true, could be axle wrap.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/search/12190023/?q=axle+wrap&t=post&o=date&c[node]=186

 

Go forward a few inches press the brake reverse a few inches press the brake... keep doing this until you can replicate the sound that you are hearing, you’ll find that it’s the pads “adjusting/slapping” as you move forward or reverse. It’s a known 2nd gen quirk that carried over

 

Having used the spare time some time ago the chain mechanism wasn't put back perfectly in place and sometimes it slaps the the wheel of the spare tire. Took me forever to notice because I usually have the windows up and music blaring.

 

I had a weird clicking noise fron a loose skid plate that i thought was a busted cv

 

I took some bailing wire and secured a roadkill possum under a guys truck back in the day. He never could figure out where the smell was coming from. lol

 

@Wsidr1 yes. That’s what I’m experiencing. Going forward and then stop. Reverse stop and so on. That’s when I hear the clanking noise.

 

@Dee1seven yep. When I do. That’s when the noise happens.

 

That’s vile lmao
What did he do to u?