jyeung528

has any s2k with stock suspension/stock ride height ever had the cv vibration or swap the cv's?

jguerdat

Yup, mine. Had it replaced under warranty.

jyeung528

no kidding...at how many miles?

jguerdat

I think it was at about 35k miles.

neurotic

Yes, mine is stock and suffered this failure.

BTW, to echo the other contributors, I did this without removing the axles (just left the axle nut on) and it took ~3.5 hours making two trips for parts (my usual pitman ball joint separate was too small, and I had to use a two prong gear/pulley puller).

And to contribute something: I found it was easiest to loosen/break free the axle fasteners by using the parking brake and breaker bar on the bolts. With this method I didn't need to hold the nut with a wrench while breaking the bolts.

graymatterz

I have a very weird situation...there has been for a few months, the vibration. Unfortunately, lately the click has shown up also, just one at first, but now (the weird part), it seems to click many times depending on how much acceleration I dump in it. It's like the clicking on a front wheel drive when you turn the wheel when the CV is bad, so i assume that I just need to break down and get another CV Shaft. I have attempted to listen and it seems to come from the driver's side...

Question is, does this sound accurate? and would i be safer just replacing both cv shafts if this is the case?

jyeung528

^
perhaps it's your wheel bearings

S-Turn AP1

Yup the sound you are talking about could be one of 2 things..... A shaft or axel nut. the TSB for the nut says the noise will occur when changing directions and starting off in first. Since you have a bunch of clicking during hard acceleration the shaft seams 2 be the source. If you can afford it do both shafts, and dont forget to replace the nuts and torque them to 220 ft.lbs ( per the TSB ).

IlleztImportz

sorry to revive a kinda old topic, but had a question.

if i were to wanting to remove just the inner cv joint, what would i need to loosen/remove on the outer side? when removing from the inside, do you remove the boot while the inner cv joint is still in? is there enough room to pull it out of the diff?

oh btw, im kinda a big guy, would it be too cramped?
doing this this weekend, its really bothering me now.

thanks for any replies

MacGyver

Turned out mine was a partially seizing caliper... something I seems to have a lot of lately