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CV joint leaking? [message #145360]

Mon, 03 October 2011 11:10

Andrew

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Registered: April 2011
Location: Connecticut

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I opened up the hatch today to locate the source of some belt slippage.

Instead I found a bunch of grease slung around, eggbeater style, on the driver's side of the engine. It's very thick stuff thrown in small globs, creating hundreds of fat black whiskers. It landed all over the place, but especially on the ATF dipstick tube and the lower diagonal structural member.

I think it's coming from the inner CV joint. The boot itself is relatively clean, but eggbeaters often are. Does this seem likely?

Could this be caused by my over-turning steering gearbox? I have tried to be careful, and I would have expected any damage to appear on the outer CV joint first, but nothing would surprise me.

I've also been running a few hundred miles with a "diminished" front driver's side shock absorber. It doesn't handle jolts well, and it rides a couple inches low, but it's still got some spring in it. Handling is mediocre but better than I've experienced over most of the last 3000 miles. The shock absorbers all around are new KYBs, 4 months 3000 miles. The axles and CV joints are also new, for that matter.

I'm assuming it would be very unwise to keep driving at this point, and we should be planning for a few days of waiting and fixing, instead of barreling westward to reach San Francisco in time for Fleet Week this coming weekend.

We're presently in Nebraska City, NE. Near I-29 and I-80, about 50 miles south of Omaha and 50 miles east of Lincoln, NE. And 1600 miles east of San Francisco. :-/

1973 Sequoia 260 (since 2011)

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		CV joint leaking? By: Andrew on Mon, 03 October 2011 11:10
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Dennis S on Mon, 03 October 2011 11:32
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Andrew on Mon, 03 October 2011 11:50
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Dennis S on Mon, 03 October 2011 12:14
		Re: CV joint leaking, torsion bar failing? By: Andrew on Mon, 03 October 2011 13:44
		Re: CV joint leaking, torsion bar failing? By: WD0AFQ on Mon, 03 October 2011 13:58
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking, torsion bar failing? By: Ken Henderson on Mon, 03 October 2011 15:48
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: jimk on Mon, 03 October 2011 12:15
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: powerjon on Mon, 03 October 2011 12:12
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: Ken Burton on Mon, 03 October 2011 15:15
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: John Sharpe on Mon, 03 October 2011 15:53
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: JohnL455 on Mon, 03 October 2011 16:08
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Harry on Mon, 03 October 2011 16:40
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Andrew on Mon, 03 October 2011 16:53
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Dennis S on Mon, 03 October 2011 17:25
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: USAussie on Mon, 03 October 2011 17:48
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: Ken Henderson on Mon, 03 October 2011 20:09
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: WD0AFQ on Mon, 03 October 2011 20:52
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: Andrew on Mon, 03 October 2011 21:45
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: Ken Henderson on Mon, 03 October 2011 22:07
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: Andrew on Mon, 03 October 2011 22:51
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: USAussie on Tue, 04 October 2011 00:04
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: Andrew on Mon, 03 October 2011 22:33
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: Ken Henderson on Tue, 04 October 2011 07:12
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: Mr ERFisher on Tue, 04 October 2011 08:15
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: Mr ERFisher on Tue, 04 October 2011 02:36
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Andrew on Tue, 04 October 2011 11:00
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Matt Colie on Tue, 04 October 2011 11:35
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Andrew on Tue, 04 October 2011 11:41
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Matt Colie on Tue, 04 October 2011 12:34
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Ken Burton on Tue, 04 October 2011 14:28
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: USAussie on Tue, 04 October 2011 17:42
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: USAussie on Tue, 04 October 2011 18:03
		Re: CV joint leaking? By: Andrew on Tue, 04 October 2011 18:52
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: USAussie on Tue, 04 October 2011 19:38
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: Andrew on Tue, 04 October 2011 23:04
		Re: [GMCnet] CV joint leaking? By: USAussie on Wed, 05 October 2011 00:00

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