Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 00:37:57 -0500
Reply-To: TonyCollin <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
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From: TonyCollin <tonycollin@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Sounds Like a Bad CV joint?
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Ok update.
I took the vanagon to the mechanic on Monday. I don't know exactly how they tested but the clunking on the passenger side along with the vibration was not heard by them.
Only cv sound heard was in the drivers side. The faint clunk. The one I know I had heard before. The one that comes and goes.
Now I drove the van today intending to find the sound. Nothing! My understanding from the report on the mechanics test was just some play one the drivers side. No rips observed. Could I have spun that axle so hard to wobble it somehow creating the artifact and then when the mechanic checked for play some how remedy that side?
I have NO way to explain this. The sound was so loud and vibration real that while I had the cell on speaker my wife could hear it.
I'm vexed.
The new axle came in today from Amazon. A suretrax brand. Can not tell you how incredibly disappointed I am in the packing. That axle was so shaken the zip ties came loose (cut). I had to redo one side, ball bearings dropping.
Well. I'm driving the piss out of the van tomorrow. Either the axle will confirm its presence in the form of sound or failure. Or it will continue to perplex me.
T.
On Feb 14, 2014, at 8:13 PM, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
Sounds like a in need of grease CV, or a loose CV, or a failing CV. I've had all 3 and they have all sounded about the same, at least initially. When they all of a sudden come loose there's no mistaking that sound.
I believe the only different length axles are the automatics, regardless of year.
Bob
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> On Feb 10, 2014, at 8:20 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.