Re: bad cv joint symptoms

["Brad Sayer" <vwrocco85@hotmail.com>]

Correct me if I a wrong, but if a CV joint is really bad, and the bearings 
are not rolling, but are seizing up, isn't that side in effect have move of 
strain/resistance, thus possibly causing the car to pull, as the wheel on 
the opposite side has more power/spins faster?

Recently I had a CV joint actually blow up.  I am talking about the ball 
bearings rolling away in the parking lot after the shrapnel tore through the 
boot.  I had to drive is a couple of feet into a spot, and the car was 
pulling real bad to the side.

Brad


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1987 16V Scirocco
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>From: SailingFC@aol.com
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: bad cv joint symptoms
>Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:21:34 EDT
>
>I would look at the tie rods, steering rack, control arm mounts and upper 
>strut bearing mount.  The CV joint is cannot cause a significant change in 
>steering geometry.  It goes through the center of the bearing carrier and 
>cannot put any side loads on the steering.  Only if one of the above parts 
>shift will you get a "pull".  The ripped boot is coincidental and should be 
>changed.
>GL.
>-Dick-
>'78 Scirocco
>Original Owner.
>
>---------------
> >     Could a bad outer CV joint cause the following thing:  The car
> > give a quick pull to the left (the side with the assumed bad joint)
> > right after changing gears.  It also pulls to this side when
> > braking.  The cars is also having some other bad driveability issues
> > that i think all relate to the same problem.
>
>
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