ever since i fitted a gripper diff it was always very noisey,clonking,grinding etc thought thats just what they were like, but worked fine,i had the shafts and springs off the car yesterday tryin to find out why my car was driving so bad. only thing i found was the drivers side shaft was nt in the cv joint properly, shaft is knackered! the splines is all fucked where it must have been out of the cv totally and has been spinning against it,fitted new shaft today, now the noise was more or less totally gone, car was driving 100% again so had a drive around the block,back into the yard and the noise is back again,i think it has pulled the shaft out of the cv again what is going on???? did nt have the heart to even look , just stuck it in the garage and walked away before i put a match to her! its the drivers side shaft that its happening too at the diff side, car is 2wd

 

is the clip on the end of the shaft dan? is the bushes on the arms good?

 

on the first shaft the clip was off , laying in the boot! but it didnt just fall off, something is making it do that, the shaft i got today was complete,i screwed out of a cos this morning, had bushes out yesterday, look just as they did the day i put them in!

 

fuck mate i dont no what could be rong with it.

what hold a shaft in on a 2wd car?

you at home then??

thanks steven..

 

a cir clip sits on the end off the shaft,sames as 4wd, aye lad home til tuesday and i spend most of my time workin on that feckin car, was up at the kilrea show there this morning, shit,bad turn out

 

i never bothered going to kilrea dan ,
spent the day with the wife.
i am for belfast shopping on monday i have been told

thanks steven..

 

seen a cos with your old plate on, j18cos! on a magenta sapphire, aye spend some of that money, you cant keep it forever ye know, evo away yet?

 

I may be wrong here but aren't the driveshafts slightly different lengths?

If you have the shorter one on the wrong side, it may put more tension on the shaft, dislodging the circlip and allowing the shaft to move in the splines.

Just a thought.

 

just back from shopping dan, fuck that hurt me today

i j18cos is on a magenta saff

did you get the car sorted yet??

thanks steven..

 

as said the drive shafts are different lengths!