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Hi Guys
Ok my luck or lack of it knows no bounds.
Out for the day in Dublin about 60 miles away from home and the cruiser decides to break down.
I have been very nice to it and dont even talk cross to it at all.
Turning a corner at lights on a duel cabbage way it decides to loose power.
The front CV is busted.
I had none of the tell tell sounds like clucking or anything like it, just severe immediate failure.
For those of you who dont have my experience of things going wrong here are the symptoms of a CV failure.
(1) Lose of power or movement even with the engine revs and all else working fine.
(2) A whinning sound from the front end of the cruiser.
(3) You will come to a stop very soon because you now no longer have any drive to any of the wheels.
(4) Now your stopped you can check to see if it is the CV by putting it in gear and gentle try to move, if you hear the whinning take it out of gear.
If you have an aoto box and its in D dont try to put it in P for a while because it wont go in and will make a lot of crunching noises because something is still spinning.
Anyway I now have to get MR T to strip it all down and see what happened, should be fun.
The first time a CV went on me the splines at the drive flange at the end of the Cv shaft were to blame.
The second time the cage with the ball bearings broke
apart into a lot of tiny bits.
This time I wont know untill its taken apart next week.
I think while its all apart I will ask them to replace in inner oil seals, strip the other CV housing and repack and get the front brake discs skimmed to see if that improves the brake pedal shutter, well while its all apart I thought it would be a good idea.
I would love to get someone to do the work in my drive way and assist but the mechanics I know dont do that, so Im stuck with leaving it into MR T or should I say them collecting it their flat bed after it arrives here on another flat bed from Dublin.
While its all apart would it be a good idea to replace the bolts/nuts that hold the ball joints onto the axle as this may be the next thing to break.
Someone else on the list had this happen to them and if it did the wheel could come off, am I right just while its all apart.
cheers
john 92HDJ 80 1HDT
Ok my luck or lack of it knows no bounds.
Out for the day in Dublin about 60 miles away from home and the cruiser decides to break down.
I have been very nice to it and dont even talk cross to it at all.
Turning a corner at lights on a duel cabbage way it decides to loose power.
The front CV is busted.
I had none of the tell tell sounds like clucking or anything like it, just severe immediate failure.
For those of you who dont have my experience of things going wrong here are the symptoms of a CV failure.
(1) Lose of power or movement even with the engine revs and all else working fine.
(2) A whinning sound from the front end of the cruiser.
(3) You will come to a stop very soon because you now no longer have any drive to any of the wheels.
(4) Now your stopped you can check to see if it is the CV by putting it in gear and gentle try to move, if you hear the whinning take it out of gear.
If you have an aoto box and its in D dont try to put it in P for a while because it wont go in and will make a lot of crunching noises because something is still spinning.
Anyway I now have to get MR T to strip it all down and see what happened, should be fun.
The first time a CV went on me the splines at the drive flange at the end of the Cv shaft were to blame.
The second time the cage with the ball bearings broke
apart into a lot of tiny bits.
This time I wont know untill its taken apart next week.
I think while its all apart I will ask them to replace in inner oil seals, strip the other CV housing and repack and get the front brake discs skimmed to see if that improves the brake pedal shutter, well while its all apart I thought it would be a good idea.
I would love to get someone to do the work in my drive way and assist but the mechanics I know dont do that, so Im stuck with leaving it into MR T or should I say them collecting it their flat bed after it arrives here on another flat bed from Dublin.
While its all apart would it be a good idea to replace the bolts/nuts that hold the ball joints onto the axle as this may be the next thing to break.
Someone else on the list had this happen to them and if it did the wheel could come off, am I right just while its all apart.
cheers
john 92HDJ 80 1HDT