Couple of things to check for: After removing the inner drive shafts do the carriers come off the shaft itself? If so then you have a damage/missing snap ring, it's what holds the carriers onto the shaft and that is what was casuing the inner drive shaft to move around. Also I remember reading somewhere about the outer drive shafts (mounted on the hub carriers) making a clunking noise and there was a fix for it. If someone has the link to that website that describes it please post it here. If you are going to bring the drive shafts to be cleaned and repaked to someone else have them inspect the inner parts of the drive shafts (bearing, etc..) to make sure you didn't cause any damage to them while running the car without the boots. Chances are you might be fine if you drove 3k miles since the boot only keeps dirt and water out and the greese is pushed into the breaings. Steve --- In dmcnews@xxxx, Delorean17@xxxx wrote: > HI, > Every time I take a corner in my car I get one "clunk" coming from the > rear of the car. I checked the trailing arm bolts and they were tight with > no shims missing etc. so I ruled that out. > Another member on the DML (thanks Jim) told me to check out my axles as > they can cause the clunking noise I am describing. I jacked the car up to > find that one of the CV boots was missing and 2 others were torn pretty good. > When you grab on to them they move back and forth and make the clunking > sound which I am probably hearing while turning. > Today I removed the axles as I am going bring them in to be cleaned and > repacked. Should I just pack them up with grease or did I most likely cause > other damage by running it W/out the CV boot?(at the most the boot was > missing for 3k miles as I checked it at the last oil change and it was OK) By > the way this car is an automatic. > > Any info would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > David