Do worn UJ's sound like birds?

Ok, 1st mistake, jetwashed the chassis so its ready to be waxoyled, shortly after this the landy began to 'chirp' a bit under acceleration in each gear. Been getting steadily worse the past couple of days, now it sounds like skippy, flipper and the brazilian rainforest dawn chorus.
I feared it was the gearbox but its coming from the right of that, under the handbrake, very difficult to pinpoint. In neutral or in gear but stationary its fine and i can change gear no problem, its just the 1st few seconds of acceleration in each gear, it will sit fine at 60-65mph.
Got under and looked, all i can see is that the UJ's have a little surface rust and theres about an inch of play in the propshaft. I will order new tomorrow when i can...
Does this all sound familiar to anyone or am i chirping up the wrong tree?
Mark ( 1987 2.5N/A diesel 90)

Yes! All sounds remarkably familiar! I changed the UJ and the shaft but on mine it was the UJs squeaking, grinding, vibrating etc under acceleration!

just pop a grease gun on them for now, and pump em full of the stuff. should sort the squeaks out.

my front UJ's have play in them - seems to be vibrating thro car - i thort it was roadnoise from the chunky tyres - duz that sound about right?

o no, mine aint a vibration, its a rattle, chirp, oink oink, peep peep, wheep wheep, grr grr..tinkle tinkle

Ahhh, that'll be the little geezer frum 'Catch the pigeon' then.

and a banana to whoever remembers his name

Clunk

badadj said:

Clunk

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ARSE! Beat me to it. Hope yer choke on yer burnana!

hee hee

Landy's ... clunks... synony.. sinonimu.. synoi.. same thing.

Now yer jest being Zilly.

Mutley more am not.

i iz hoping its the prop shaft - coz if it aint - its the injun.

back to the thread, if it is worn UJ's i cant get em delivered til wednesday (i live a long way away) Can i continue to drive 100 miles a day for 3 days or is this a) unwise
b) stupid
c) no problem whatsoever
c is the answer i hope to hear.....

It's c isn't it.

Nice nana by the wa.... erk splutter.

i faxed the banana

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cheeky pup!

if its uj's then c coz i bin running like it fur months - as I sed i fort it was road noise!

woop bong woyloyl.