Testing CV joints

Tihol Tiholov t.tiholov at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 16:39:59 EDT 2006


>> When our 4kq wouldn't move forward after my wife backed it out of her
parking space, but just sit and make a strange whirring noise when the
clutch was let out, I got it going by locking the differentials.
>> So how do I determine which of the eight joints has failed?  They all
look "normal" when eyeballed.

>Try jacking up one wheel at a time and trying to spin them.  Because of the
front and rear diff, they shouldn't turn with the other three wheels on the
ground.  Unless the CV joint has broken...

I'd start the above with the front wheels, most likely a front outer CV.  Do
the 4K's have CV's on the propshaft?  I've had a pretty sloppy front
propshaft CV on the Typ 89.


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