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After my rover 214 died a slow and expensive death i bought a 2000 suzuki swift gls. Very tidy runs well stays cool etc, however when you turn to full lock and accelerate it makes a repetitive 'crunching' sound as though something is rotating and hitting metal. It does this either way i turn.
Anyone tell me if this is serious please?
many thanks
Sounds very like outer CV joints.
+1 For CV joints
Constant velocity joints, your rubbers split letting all that lovely oooze come out or dry up....
Checked the service history that name keeps coming up.
Is it a major issue and is it expensive to repair?
thanks
Have educated myself to what a CV joint is it definately sounds like my problem but apparently not an mot failure.
You can pick up a replacement for ~£40, is it a hard job to replace?
Also do i need to replace the actual joint or just the boot?
It goes like this.. boot splits, grease out, water in, joint dies a noisy death. So by the time you hear it, it's over for the joint.
If you spot the split boot early enough, you can just replace the boot,, but as said, if you can hear it it's too late, new joints required. It's not difficult, but it will be messy.
And requiring some special tools, big socket and tourque wrench, ball joint splitter and a big hammer, usually. A garage should charge for about 40 mins to an hour for each one. It's not always that hard, but can require a bit of knowhow for that particular car, as sometimes it's hard to get them to bits or back together without removing the shock (on some cars) good luck! Get a haynes manual from your local libary!
Have an update!
decided to attempt the cv joint replacement myself:
got the calliper construct off the ball joint to give enough room to push cv splines out of wheel hub, pulled out other end of driveshaft from the (engine).
Ok so a fair amount of transmission fluid escaped and ordering a new joint was an issue due to differences of 'knock-off' and circlip type joins?
Anyways have order the right part (i hope)
I now have a driveshaft in my vice and need to remove the CV joint, how do i do this? i have hammered it a bit but to no avail, please help!
Also how would i get the new joint on as getting it off was such a struggle?
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Looks like a circlip holds it on to the splines:
http://www.teamswift.net/viewtopic.php?t=26830
i am trying to remove the wheel end cv joint not the transmission end? i cant see any circlips and have just ordered a knock-off/snap-on cv over a circlipped one, am i an idiot?
Try Googling 'replacing cv joint' loads of 'how to's' on there.
yeah definately trying to remove the other end and cant see any circlips etc, just ball bearings within 6 'arms'. guy who i ordered parts from said that if it was a circlip type one of the arms would have a machined circe in it with thread which i cant see/isnt there...?