[s-cars] Drivetrain Clank

[serge]

on 3/4/03 11:55 PM, Andrew Pennell at apennell001 at yahoo.com wrote:

> Have any of you out there experienced a noise from your drivetrain that sounds
> like a a hollow clank clank clank. The frequency varies with the vehicle
> speed. Seems to be located mid-car and is not gear specific. It only occurs
> when car is under heavier loads in the lowers gears when accelerating.

I recently had exactly what you are describing, the culprit(s) were dried
out CV joints at the ends of the prop shaft. The good news is, if its not
too bad you can probably just repack CV grease in there. The bad news is
that the mid section of the exhaust has to come off to acce$$ the prop
shaft, and as far as I know there are no "service" parts for the prop shaft.
So if the CV's are worn beyond limit, its either trying to find parts at the
boneyard or getting fleeced by the stealer for the whole prop shaft
assembly.

Serge Filanovsky

95 S6 Avant