CV joint binding? help diagnosing prblm

[sciroccodave@yahoo.com (David Hellekson)]

Howdy,

Just experienced this exact same thing on my 'rocco.
Freaked me out when it first did it. Drove me nuts as
I checked every bolt and joint due to the intermittent
nature. Ended up taking the axles out and rebuilt
units put back in. Problem gone. At least for the last
week.




 
--- Victor Farren <farrenator@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sorry, this is not a rocco, but a 1984 Rabbit gti.
> 
> I am driving home last night and I feel a bad
> vibration in the pedals of the car.  The vibration
> gets louder and stronger and almost feels like the
> tire is going to fall off the car, or as if I had a
> really bad flat tire.  I thought: 1) tire was about
> to
> fall off b/c of loose bolts, 2) control arm was
> about
> to fall off of car, 3) cv joint was about to fall
> off
> of trans.  The sound/vibration increases with
> rolling
> speed.  It also seemed to go away and come back
> intermittenly.
> 
> I pulled off the road a couple of times to look
> under
> the car and check that all the suspension and axle
> shafts were tight and wheel were secure.  Nothing
> was
> falling off and all looked good :)  I made it home
> and
> pulled off wheel just to retighten CV joints in case
> any bolts were loose.  Doing this I realized that
> the
> drivers side inner cv joint was binding.  I can
> usually turn the axle shaft by hand, turning the
> actual axle shaft when the car is in neutral and
> both
> front tires are off the ground.  There was a
> definite
> sticking point when rotating the shaft 360 degrees. 
> I
> had to go to turn the shaft by turning the brake
> rotor
> so I could get more leverage and get past the
> sticking
> point. 
> 
> No doubt I have to get this fixed, but has anyone
> had
> this experience of a binding cv joint?  Did it
> create
> this god awful vibration?  Or do I have something
> else
> (in addition) wrong with the car :)  Damn thing felt
> pretty sketchy.  It sounded like something was
> banging
> up against the car.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Please respond directly to my email,
> farrenator@yahoo.com since I am on digest mode.
> 
> Victor
> 
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=====
Dave Hellekson
88 Techtonics 2.0 16v

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