I pulled the driveshaft off today and both the u-joints are pretty bad. All the bearings are broken in half. I went and got new u-joints earlier and tomorrow I am taking the driveshaft to a shop and getting the old ones pressed off and the new ones pressed on. I will put it all back together when I get back and see if that helps anything. If it doesn't make any noises I will just call it quits and drive it till it all explodes.

 

Man, I'll cross my fingers for ya. Hope it could be just that simple. And CHEAP!

 

There wasn't anybody local open on Saturday so I had to wait until today. I took the driveshaft over to a driveshaft specialist and he put in some u-joints ($50 for everything, now I can send back to rockauto that bearing and seal kit and get my $97 back) he had ($40) because the ones my dad went and got from O'Reilley's were the wrong ones. Anyway, went back home, put the driveshaft in, and I haven't had any problems with it at all. The noises (squeaking, popping, and clunking) are all gone. With the stiffer new u-joints, the pinion doesn't have a whole lot of play in it and my differential hasn't exploded, so I would call it good for now. I know it's not 100% fixed but it will last for a while until I can save up the money to have somebody redo the rearend professionally. I appreciate all the responses and if somebody else is having these problems with their rearend hopefully it will help out.