Re: Drive Axles thunking?

["dmcman82" <srubano@xxxx>]

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