excessive gear noise when driving? possible intermediate shaft?

[Losiracer2]

I'm asking this question because when I'm driving in any gear, I can hear a lot of gear noise. It sounds like I've got straight cut gears or something...very noisy in any gear, at any speed.

It doesn't build up with speed, or I don't hear a humming, so I don't think its a wheel bearing.

Reason I ask is, I recently put a new D/S axle in about 2 weeks ago, and along w/ that, I put in what i'm thinking was a better spare intermediate shaft since it spun more freely. But now, whenever I drive, It sounds like a very loud gear mesh.

I even drained and refilled my transmission w/ Syncromesh, and before that I had 10k mile Redline MTL in there. So I highly doubt any other trans fluid will quiet that noise.

So, could a possible bad bearing in an intermediate shaft cause this loud gear noise?

[Losiracer2]

anyone know?

[baracuda]

anyone know?

does it sounds like a bad bearing? and the noise just started AFTER you replaced the shaft? sounds like the problem, or make sure your axels and axel nuts are in and tightened correctly.

[Losiracer2]

does it sounds like a bad bearing? and the noise just started AFTER you replaced the shaft? sounds like the problem, or make sure your axels and axel nuts are in and tightened correctly.

it just sounds like a really rough sounding drivetrain where you can hear the gears at all times. At first I thought it was my intermediate shaft not being pushed in all the way and all the MTF drained out, but i checked the level and even drained and refilled the fluid and it still does it w/ 2 qts of new fluid.

I replaced the intermediate shaft w/ a spare I had, but it turns out today, I went to go buy a new bearing, 35 bucks, and the parts guy gave me the wrong one! he gave me one for a civic or an integra it was tiny. I compared my old bearing w/ my new bearing when I had it out and it wasn't bad. It had the same amount of drag as the new one. The intermediate shaft I'm talking about is the one I took out...the spare I replaced it with is still installed in my car so that one could be bad but I have no idea until I remove it.

I'll do this all tomorrow after class I guess...ugh more work.

[Losiracer2]

Anyone experience this right before their transmission gave out? My mechanic/swap guy said that it could possibly be my input or output bearings failing on the differential causing the noise