Hi Barry - one of the CV joints on my car also makes an intermittent clunking racket - is it costly/difficult to replace the CV joints OR to re-build/repack the grease ?Barry wrote:Bit of an update: the car has been used twice since the MOT.
The first time I drove pretty steadily to a family BBQ, and it behaved pretty well, except that right at the end of the drive I heard a bit of a noise from the rear, in time with wheel revs.
Then, on the way to the wedding last weekend, one of the driveshafts really started protesting, induced I think by a bit of full throttle/third gear action. Two things became apparent then: one, the car is really quite quick when wound up, and two, one of the driveshafts was poorly.
As per the thread under '911', it turned out that one of the CV joints has lost it's grease, which had been replaced by a sorry mixture of rust and gunge. Driveshaft has now been re-built, and I'm looking fowards to being able to drive the car again.
Next stage is to quieten the car down with a pair of gear selector shaft boots ( I fitted these to the last car, and couldn't believe the difference they made). Also I want to put in the mountings for the four-point harnesses at the same time: might do these over this weekend.
More to follow ...
Regards
Sean