Fixed crook CV joints ... with a wheel brace

Over the last few months, I've been trying to ignore clunky CV joints, though I've been confused because the noise came up rather suddenly and it seemed to be coming from the rear of the car. Had she been a rear wheel drive I would certainly have been under her checking the universal joints on the drive shaft. Although some of the noise had appeared before the big engine melt down I recently reported, it's certainly been bugging me since.



Moving along. Early this year, I fitted new tyres. My tyre supplier has a rotation and wheel alignment schedule in place. The first of these was free. The second I have to pay for, as I discovered when I tried to book the car in. "Bugger that," I thought, "I'll do it myself".



So today I did. I put the ZR up on work stands and proceeded to pull the wheels off. Interestingly, while no wheel nut was 'loose', more than I was happy with were less 'tight' than I expected - after all, after a tyre company has fitted wheels, you generally need to borrow your neighbour's tame gorilla to get the damned wheel nuts loose.



Anyway, the rotation went well, despite the 40C heat (summer's here, yay!) - that's a mere 105F btw, though I had managed to park the car so that during the job, I found myself doing the front wheels in full sunlight. The wheel nuts were done up properly because I have this irrational belief that having a wheel come off while driving is a bad thing. Then I took her for a test thrash.



Guess what.

No clicking CV joints. Not a peep. That damned tyre shop hadn't done up my wheel nuts properly ... either them or the mob who did the engine because I can't for the life of me remember which firm had the car last.



Ah well. Cheap fixes is good fixes ... and now I can go find something else to worry about.

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