Diagnose: severe clunking

[Joe.Doty@lcnetwork.com (Joe Doty)]

Keep in mind that the wheel bearings will have lots of play in them
until the axle nuts are torqued down. =20

Joe Doty
IT/Development
joe@lcnetwork.com=20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elijah R [mailto:nicadimus@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 7:08 AM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Diagnose: severe clunking
>=20
> I wouldn't rule out the wheel bearing as far as the clunking goes.
this
> weekend I pulled the drivers axel out of my cabby because of a
clunking
> sound thinking it was a CV joint go bad. at low speeds it sound like
> hammer
> hitting the lower control arm intermitently. With the axel out and
just
> for
> fun I spun the wheel and it turned, clunked the ceased. I tried it a
few
> more time and it would do much the same thing every time. After
removing
> the
> hub the peices of the bearing wear easily removed. I was pleaslenty
> surprised, and saved from buying a CV.
> anywho just my lil tid bit of the morning, lol