Inner cv diagnose

[peter at thescirocco.com (Peter)]

The outer CV joint would definitely make more of a difference, with
vibration at speed, since it's closer to the wheel. 

...That said, the vibration could still travel down the axle shaft.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: fahrvergnugen@cox.net [mailto:fahrvergnugen@cox.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:58 PM
To: LEF; peter@thescirocco.com; 'John S. Lagnese'; Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: Re: Inner cv diagnose

I don't post this to be a smart ass at all, but I just replaced the outer
shaft on the pickup this evening.  The outer boot was gone, but someone had
cleaned out the grease pretty well, so it drove fine for at least 10K miles
that way.  The sand trucks came out in force in Jan., and found its' way
into said CV.  It always had a vibration, but it got worse after that.
Eventually, it was so bad, it began to make erratic vibrations at highway
speed, so much so I didn't know if I would make it home or not.  I replaced
it tonight, and my fokking God I can't believe how much smoother it is.  I
am confident that the CV was the cause, since that was the only thing I
changed...

Now, I know you said it was not 'usually' the cause of vibration, to which I
agree.  I would just like to stress that it may be the cause even so.
Rotating tires is a much easier thing to do first, and a logical choice...

David
> 
> From: "LEF" <rocco16@sbcglobal.net>
> Date: 2006/03/20 Mon AM 07:55:29 EST
> To: <peter@thescirocco.com>,  "'John S. Lagnese'" <jlagnese@massed.net>, 
> 	<Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Subject: Re: Inner cv diagnose
> 
> Good observation.  I've found that bad CV's usually result in noise rather
than vibration.
> 
> Larry
> sandiego16v
> 
> 
>   I'd start by rotating the tires, because it sounds like a wheel
balancing
>   problem.
>   Peter
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