Transmission stuttering/shuttering

[photodisco]

Hello All -

I have a disco II 87k and just took a round trip 300 mile trip to Phily and back. While in the city i noticed once that under relatively hard accelleration the transmission was very jerky and stuttering between the 1-2 and 2-3 shifts...it did not happen again so i thought it must have been the pavement causing it. Today on the way home when i would stop more often then not there was a distinct shuttering between the first 2 shifts. Any thoughts would be helpful...,

 

[joey]

Sounds like your u-joints need replacing on the front driveshaft.

 

[photodisco]

Let me add that it seems to have happened after about 2 hours of straight non stop driving. After the truck cooled down yesterday - i made a few short drives and i could not get it too replicate. Again - this morning coming to work driving only about 15 miles - i could not get it to replicate...

 

[joey]

If you haven't changed your U-joints on your front driveshaft, I would change them.

 

[photodisco]

thanks !