Car barely moves and makes terrible noise

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Originally Posted by 2g Monson

Well this goes along with the terrible month for mitsu's. Last night I go to drive my car. When I put it in gear and let the clutch off and give it any gas it makes a loud clunking/ grinding noise from the left front. After trailering it home it wouldn't even move. I took it apart and none of the splines are wore away on the axle and no shavings are in the tranny. My dad looked at it as i was pulling it off the trailer and said half the axle was spinning. So the transmission was turning but it wont turn the wheels.

Any ideas?

Tomorrow I plan on looking for a used axle just to see if it will fix it. It never did it before last night.

Center diff blew up is my guess. Do you have the transmission out yet?