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General Category => Hybrid/Tech => Topic started by: stealthiskey on June 08, 2009, 06:09:59 PM

Title: defective axles
Post by: stealthiskey on June 08, 2009, 06:09:59 PM: both boots on my old driveshaft ripped, no clicking.
went to pep boys bought both driver and passenger side remanufactured axles.
Installed the new axles.
Now there's a thumping when accelerating and turning, i.e. pulling out of a parking space or making a u turn.

That's 99% sure a bad cv joint right?

Any idea how I can tell which axle is bad?

Jack up the car, turn the wheel, and run it in first with the brakes lightly on?
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: turbohf on June 08, 2009, 06:14:09 PM: yeah you bought a shitty chinese/south america reman axle...

turning left = bad right axle, etc
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: stealthiskey on June 08, 2009, 06:16:45 PM: well that sucks, its thumping when turning hard in either direction. fuck pepboys
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: turbohf on June 08, 2009, 06:18:36 PM: yeah i had a bad one out the box from Schuck's back when i did my swap in my CRX... dont buy remans, buy new ones. better chance of getting good ones... EVEN BETTER, get good used OEM axles and put new OEM boots on them...
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: stealthiskey on June 08, 2009, 06:24:04 PM: god damnit. that is some serious butt.
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: chris on June 08, 2009, 06:32:00 PM: not really this is a known fact for years
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: stealthiskey on June 08, 2009, 08:57:07 PM: is it possible that I fucked up the cv joint during install? I don't think I did anything out of the ordinary. I used an impact gun on the hub nut, but I wouldn't expect that to fuck up the joint??
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: Conceptz-X on June 08, 2009, 09:53:45 PM: Doubt it, If it's snapped into the trans and tigntened up. Too loose can fuck up wheel bearings
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: stealthiskey on June 09, 2009, 12:18:46 AM: upon further inspection I think it might only be the passenger side, will try another cheapo axle tomorrow. Not happy about putting in shitty quality parts though. Whatever, I'll rebuild my oems on the side I guess.
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: Robb on June 09, 2009, 02:44:10 PM: Outer joints usually wont thump, but the tripod style inner joints will. You can thank ford for that. Like Chris said, ching/chong/meow.
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: Joseph Davis on June 09, 2009, 10:49:33 PM: Your car is lowered, raise it back up and china axles won't do that.

Let me guess, your inner joints are now discolored from heat?
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: Corey on June 10, 2009, 07:16:43 PM: never had a problem with autozone remans. 10.6@140 says they work pretty good. ive yet to break one granted ive never made more then 350whp on them personally. been on both slammed and non slammed cars.
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: Joseph Davis on June 10, 2009, 08:12:57 PM: Yeah, I know people who've done the same. My CRX, which was dropped maybe 1/4" below stock Si height, just vibrated the car under power and when braking. HASport has/had a nice writeup about how imprecise chassis manifacture is and some cars do that when swapped, and to use 86-89 axle pieces in various configurations to remedy both rattle and popping out. IIRC the shaft is shorter for axles that bind, and the inner joint helps with axles that pop out... but I could be wrong. I only experienced it on my CRX, and going back to OEM axles that are abviously designed for more inner joint travel (or a shorter axle/diff joint design/etc?) fixed my problem.

Wierd shit happens sometimes, welcome to cars.
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: chris on June 10, 2009, 08:19:03 PM: http://www.hasport.com/news/articles/Hasport%20Axles2.htm (http://www.hasport.com/news/articles/Hasport%20Axles2.htm)
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: soontobeDA on June 10, 2009, 08:40:50 PM: i had very bad luck with remans

swaped out 5 in a period of 2 weeks

Worst was when i was heading to the track front right decided to snap and i was going 80 and fucking basically lost steering
had to go from left lane to right (4 dam lanes)

just glad i didnt hit anyone this was fucking in socal

then i got a oem 3rd gen axle
never broke again
still running today
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: stealthiskey on June 10, 2009, 11:06:50 PM: I think it was the tripot bearing on the right side. It looked and felt awful wobbly when I had the car up on stands. Anyhow I returned both axles to Pep boys, tried to pick up some boot kits, but no one stocks them. Ended up with new GSP axles from Advance for $70 less. We'll see how they do tomorrow. Any tips for getting them seated in the diff?

Car is not lowered.
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: Corey on June 11, 2009, 03:28:14 AM: autozone sells boot kits.
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: d-rail on June 11, 2009, 03:43:59 AM: DSS sells boot kits and I thing Honda does also
Title: Re: defective axles
Post by: stealthiskey on June 12, 2009, 06:14:20 PM: Update:

GSP axles are pretty good. Boots had like 5? ribs on them vs the 3 ribbed pep boys/Fenco axles. Axles also had the lil rubber damper discs, whereas the Fenco did not. Oh yea, and they actually worked, are brand new, and are $70 a piece with no core charge. Also, lifetime warrantee, vs the Fenco which only had warranty agains mfr defects.

Oddly enough these GSP clearly state made in China whereas Fenco claimed "product of USA". I guess when they save on labor they can afford better parts and QC?