Finally got the beast up and running and road legal. First drive in 4WD I noticed a noise. The front drive shaft has a "clanging" noise coming from it. Even though all the ujoints seem tight, I pulled the shaft tonight and noticed between the two U joints that are next to the transfercase there seems to be a small curved metal plate inbetween the two joints, is this normal? I'm pretty sure this is where the clanging noise is coming from. Now I'm tring to determine if it's broke, or if I should take it out or not even worry about it and listen to the jingle bells. I'll try to get some pics posted but it's at a really awkward location.
Oh, the truck is a 1980 if that helps.