triton lemon or buy of the year

the knocking noise could be a rear uni, happened to me that way once with an old ute i had (holden).

I would say thrust bearing noise is not normal, especially if it goes away when you depress clutch.

Could the knocking be the exhast ?
I dont know what the triton 31 is but if its a ute it could be the ute body to chassis bolts come loose and jumping on the mounts (this happened to my old Hilux).

Jonny,
Congratulations on the new beast, sounds like you need to check the oil in the gear box. If there is any sign of water in the oil the ute has been driven in water and you should change the oil in everything and rerace the box. The gear box bearings should last if they are in clean oil. The knock could be uni's, shackle bushes, spare tyre, loose wheel nuts, good luck. Eric.

had a mazda bravo with a noisey thrust bearing.my 4wd mechanic told me it was probably just a little dry and suggested i spray inox on the bearing through the inspection hole.worked a treat! noise went away drove another 20000 km's and sold it and know one knew the difference.keep in mind you must use the little nozzle extensions and be accurate.you don't want any on the clutch plate.also don't use to much because you don't want it spraying of everywhere.
noise in the back end sounds like a uni joint on it's way out.
hope it helps
jason

thanks for all the replies im taking it to the mitsu place up the road and see what he says.
i feel like an idiot though as the noise was my spare jiggleing in the back.
anything else i should know about the tritons?

Jonny,

Congratulations on purchasing what I believe is a great (underated) 4WD. I have just taken delivery of our second new GLS dual cab (traded in our 99 model) and can offer the following from our experiences.

The thrust bearing on EVERY 5 speed Triton that I know of is noisy. I queried this at first service on the first vehicle to be told that the sound was normal. I continued to query it at each subsequent service and the standard answer didn't change. When we traded it the noise was still there BUT we didn't ever have any trouble with it.

AND the new car has exactly the same noise.

You'll be happy to know that we didn't have any mechanical breakdowns in the entire time that we had the truck.

Let me know if you get a Mitsubishi dealer to do anything about the noise - or explain what they believe it is.

BTW, where did you buy it, how many k's and how much did they sting you?

i was told it was after market its mounted on the steering colum under the wipers it works great nice and simple an on/off switch and a set speed theres no resume or anything like that it cancels the speed once the brakes are applied and not with the accelerator. not sure which brand though there was no paper work on it and no brand name on it.