My D1 has needed a driver side CV joint for a while. It's been clicking and clacking.
This weekend we took the relatives to Black Friday sales and pulling into a space the clacking got epic. Heads turned. Splines crashing.
We shopped and came out. I forgot all about the big burst of clacking and we drove to a restaurant a couple hundy yards away where.......
I pulled into a spot and the clacking turned to one GIANT THUNK.
I said Oh ****
Here's where it gets fun.
Just out of habit, I reversed out of the space. I mean, I knew I had to do something but all I could think to do was back up. Another CLUNK. I swear the truck lifted a few inches.
I kept backing out and said to the folks, we gota go home.
We went home. I don't know why I drove but I did. Now here's the weird thing. No clacking at all on the way home. No vibration. No shimmying. No problems with turns like I been having. Full turn radius, both sides.
I had it at the shop yesterday and they said it looks fine. They got it up and looked at it and said there's nothing wrong with it. I was sure I broke an axle. There is a little slop in the transfer case on acceleration, but I think that was there before the CV started clicking. In fact, I am sure it was.
The shop is short-hand this week because the guys are out allready for the holiday. They said I could bring it back and they'd tear into the ball, but they said it like you'd talk to a gramma. They don't think anything's wrong with my truck.
So I thought Id ask you guys.
I could haul the family up to where we're staying for the weekend in it. I sort of perfer not to, and yet, the guys were saying there's literally nothing wrong.
This weekend we took the relatives to Black Friday sales and pulling into a space the clacking got epic. Heads turned. Splines crashing.
We shopped and came out. I forgot all about the big burst of clacking and we drove to a restaurant a couple hundy yards away where.......
I pulled into a spot and the clacking turned to one GIANT THUNK.
I said Oh ****
Here's where it gets fun.
Just out of habit, I reversed out of the space. I mean, I knew I had to do something but all I could think to do was back up. Another CLUNK. I swear the truck lifted a few inches.
I kept backing out and said to the folks, we gota go home.
We went home. I don't know why I drove but I did. Now here's the weird thing. No clacking at all on the way home. No vibration. No shimmying. No problems with turns like I been having. Full turn radius, both sides.
I had it at the shop yesterday and they said it looks fine. They got it up and looked at it and said there's nothing wrong with it. I was sure I broke an axle. There is a little slop in the transfer case on acceleration, but I think that was there before the CV started clicking. In fact, I am sure it was.
The shop is short-hand this week because the guys are out allready for the holiday. They said I could bring it back and they'd tear into the ball, but they said it like you'd talk to a gramma. They don't think anything's wrong with my truck.
So I thought Id ask you guys.
I could haul the family up to where we're staying for the weekend in it. I sort of perfer not to, and yet, the guys were saying there's literally nothing wrong.