Can this CV joint make clanking?

Luis Felipe Patino lfpatino at pacbell.net
Sun Jun 16 05:54:44 EDT 2002


> Hi listers.
>
> I have drive shaft off.  Front CV has play. Rear is tight.  The play is
> not big.  Could this CV make loud clanking sound?

hi, i'm sorry not to have written sooner, b/c i
may have saved  you the work of removing the drive
shaft: my previous 4kq (an '85) had similar drive
shaft symptoms until i read from the list that the
drive shaft u-joint - not the CVs - needs regular
greasing.

sure enough mine was bone dry. i took the car to a
jiffy lube, and asked them to grease it with their
general-purpose grease from their grease gun. "but
i don't see the fitting!" whined the grease dude.
"trust me: it's there. just rotate the shaft 'till
you find it," i said. "oh, yes! you're right!" he
proclaimed, and proceeded to pump grease into the
joint until grease squirted out of the u-joint. it
took *a lot* of grease to accomplish that.

then after about 100 miles of driving all the
drive shaft noise disappeared - for good.

HTH,

luis - '87 4kcsq



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