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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 01:46 PM
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Hey all..
I started to get this noise coming from the left rear wheel area.. Its a rotating noise that happens when i am coasting but goes away when i accelerate.
It went away for a few days, so i thought it might have been a rock caught in the disc..
This morning it came back.. AND worse..
I have changed the CV housing left to right...
The CV boot was a bit loose and a bit of grease came out.. so i pulled the whole thing apart again, checked if there was still plenty of grease in there and put it back together again (used a cv clamp tool that time)

Im getting no vibration inside the car.. just a really bad noise that is even turning heads on the street!
Could it be the diff??
Help anyone??
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 04:41 PM
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Also makes the noise more if i am turning right. When i turn left the noise is completly gone!
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 06:38 PM
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Axle nut TSB would be my first guess. Seen this many times with low speed rotational noises.
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Old Mar 5, 2006 | 06:55 PM
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Sounds like your hub may be going (which can be caused by the axle nut not being properly tightened).
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Old Mar 6, 2006 | 03:19 AM
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Axle nut it tighten..could it be the bearing??
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Old Mar 6, 2006 | 06:52 AM
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I had to replace my wheel bearing to fix that sort of noise.
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Old Mar 6, 2006 | 02:42 PM
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Stages of axle nut TSB issues:

1-nut not tight enough from factory. Eventually you'll get a single pop/click noise when starting off in first or reverse, due to the axle spline shifting in the hub

2-nut still loose....hub will start to shift in the inner bearing races, causing a rotational noise at low speed, sounds like dragging brakes/warped rotor

3-nut still loose....the shifting hub will wear itself out where it contacts the race, as the race surface is 3X as hard

4-nut still loose....along with a ruined hub, the two inner bearing races will move out of alignment with each other, destroying the wheel bearing

What stage are YOU at folks?
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Old Mar 6, 2006 | 09:53 PM
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Thanks for that!

The nut is tight as i can manually do it!
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Old Mar 7, 2006 | 02:52 AM
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If the tsb was not done, it's not tight.
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Old Mar 7, 2006 | 06:03 AM
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Originally Posted by dbzerk,Mar 7 2006, 12:53 AM
Thanks for that!

The nut is tight as i can manually do it!
Can your torque wrench do 220 lb-ft?
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