Put driveshaft on and also put on axle nut,but still doesn't move

[rocco16v at netzero.net (L F)]

You didn't happen to find several big, grease-covered steel balls laying on the floor when you got done, did you?

Larry

  sounds like you bent outer cv to the point of disengaging it.
  Al

  > What I was doing was replacing my old driveshaft with
  > a new remanufactured one just so I could drive it
  > around again.  The problem is while, I installed the
  > driveshaft(I tightened the triple square bolts) and
  > used my breaker bar for the axle nut for the outer CV
  > area, when I tried to drive it, it would not move with
  > the new driveshaft and would make some noises comming
  > from the inner CV, while in gear, I let the car run
  > since it did not stall and looked at the driveshaft,
  > it was spinning like it was wobbling.  The axle nut
  > was not spinning at all.
  > --- T Berk <"TBerk "@sbcglobal>,
  > UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR. wrote:
  > > Andrew Wong wrote:
  > > >
  > > > Today I got around to loosening the axle nut
  > > slightly
  > > > more than before and putting the bolts of the
  > > inner CV
  > > > in, I don't think I tightened it tight enough, the
  > > > axle nut and inner CV bolts because when I started
  > > the
  > > > car, and put it in reverse, it did not move still.
  > >  I
  > > > looked at the axle and it was spinning like it was
  > > > wobbling.  Any ideas?
  > > >
  > > > =====
  > > > -Andrew Wong
  > > > 1984 Black Scirocco
  > > > 1987 White Quantum wagon
  > > >
  > >
  > >
  > > Hmm,  I need you to describe this again.
  > >
  > > There is the transaxle, it connects to the inner CV
  > > joint via the
  > > tripplesquare bolts. The Inner CV has one end of the
  > > axle stuck into it,
  > > the other end has the Outer CV with it's splines
  > > that fit into the hub.
  > >
  > > If you have (at least) two or more than of those
  > > inner CV bolts in then
  > > the only place you might be able to spin the axle
  > > without getting the
  > > wheel to turn is a CV that has the axle pulled out
  > > of it, OR you don't
  > > have the axle far enough into the hub.
  > >
  > > btw- On my K. Ghia I spun the spines off one of the
  > > rear drive axles
  > > because the capture nut on the axle had back out
  > > some.
  > >
  > > 'Splain it again so I can visualize 1. What you had
  > > to start with and 2.
  > > what you are doing to try and fix it.
  > >
  > >
  > > TBerk
  > >
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  > =====
  > -Andrew Wong
  > 1984 Black Scirocco
  > 1987 White Quantum wagon
  >
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