Need help! Left rear wheel area noise!
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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??
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??
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?
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?







