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Date:         Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:57:46 -0500
Reply-To:     TonyCollin <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         TonyCollin <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Sounds Like a Bad CV joint?
Comments: To: Ralph Meyermann <ralphmeyermann@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <CAAj276w-GN3Nn_dRs38OT7Rpu9uo_5=h3E9b0YrpX=55pNJMxQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks for all the replies. I dropped it off to the mechanic I trust other than me.

I had not thought this could be saved. Maybe the old salty dog will have a way to lube or save the axle joint before it is too gone.

T.

On Feb 10, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Ralph Meyermann <ralphmeyermann@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

Mine sounded similar with a clunk clunk with speed that came and went until it was constant then started vibrating. All the noise and vibration increased with speed. I replaced all 4 cv joints my passenger outer was very dry and bolts were coming loose too!

Velma 82 1.9L AAZ td westy > On Feb 10, 2014 11:34 AM, "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote: > > You can also get a needle at your flaps with a zerk-like fitting that will

> snap into your grease gun. Inject that sucker with grease from multiple > points. Also, a brake shoe will create a ruckus, but more of a clunk clunk

> clunk that comes and goes than a vibration or a constant noise. > > Jim > > >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote: >> >> Should be able to lube joints from the axle ends of the boots. Snake a >> grease gun in there; squeeze in a few strokes, and massage the boot to > work >> grease into the joint. Noise will go away. Plan on cleaning and relubing

>> at your leisure. >> >> Karl Wolz >> Sent from my electronic umbilicus >> >>> On Feb 10, 2014, at 7:20 AM, T Collins <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM> wrote: >>> >>> Im asking for your opinions as to identify a bad CV joint. >>> >>> I had for sometime heard a little clunking back there, to the rear >>> passenger side of the vanagon. That clunking would come and go never > bad, >>> or caused vibration or anything, It would appear and then simply > vanish. >>> >>> Now this clunking is more of a ruckus since last week. I got stuck on a >>> slope over a sheet of ice. So I spun hard on the axles (or the one) due >> to >>> the sheet of ice. Last Friday coming home I heard the clunk, clunk at >>> highway speed with a particularly bad vibration. >>> >>> Had not driven the vanagon this weekend and on the way to work the > clunk, >>> clunk was there as described from Friday. >>> >>> I had not seen any rips on the boots. >>> >>> 1) ANY chance a brake pad could cause the same? >>> 2) Does it sound to you guys that the axle is on the way out? >>> 3) One more think, In manual 85 GL vanagon tin tops are the axles the >> same >>> right and left? >>> >>> All this while it sucks to work on cars outside. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> T. >


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