>Any listy mebers with Jetta experiance? > >My nieghbor saw me working on my vanagon and asked me to look at his 89 >jetta. It is an automatic convertable, gas (don't know engine size) ~ >150Kmiles. > >He has sounds coming from his front end. I am going to drive it to a shop an >put it on a lift. Innitially it sounds like CV joints. > >What else shoul I look for? >Tire rods? Bushings? >Any concern for transmission damage driving extened period with bad CV? -=-=-=- While accelerating gently, turn the wheel as far to each side as you can. (Best done in an empty parking lot of some big corp. on the weekend. ) If the sound is pronounced when the helm is thrown all the way over, it's CV's, for sure. Wheel bearings go once in awhile. They generally growl regardless of steering position. In all the Jettas, Sciroccos, Golfs I've owned, I never replaced any other front end component. They all tracked straight and true. Dave -- Dave Carpenter Whatever you wish for me, May you have twice as much. "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C. Clarke |
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