Re: bad cv joint symptoms

[SailingFC@aol.com]

Your right, if the joint is gone it will not be able to turn the wheel and 
your fighting the pull from the opposite wheel that is trying to move the car 
forward and therefore causing the wheel to turn in the direction of the side 
of the bad joint.  You must have had a limited slip diff. for being able to 
drive at all after the joint exploded.

-Dick-
78 Scirocco
Original Owner
http://member.aol.com/sailingfc/


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In a message dated 8/14/01 1:40:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
vwrocco85@hotmail.com writes:


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.

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