Suby Guys, question about tripod inner cv joints, Retainer (CirClip) failed!? |
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Suby Guys, question about tripod inner cv joints, Retainer (CirClip) failed!? |
914pipe |
Jul 28 2018, 10:44 PM
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Say......TEEEEEEEN!!!!! Group: Members Posts: 346 Joined: 31-July 04 From: Puerto Rico, now NC Member No.: 2,422 Region Association: South East States |
Found out that my trailing arms bushings were shot, so I changed them and put everything back together.
Went for a 10 min ride and about 3/4 of a mile from home I heard a "BOOM" coming from the passenger side....and almost no traction... Every time I try to move the car.... It will make a loud nice.... Long story short...Took the car home on a tow truck. Inspected the car and the passenger side inner CV joint retainer clip (cir-clip, the one that prevents the tripod come off the CV housing) was missing. No signals of it inside the boot. I did NOT remove the boot while changing the trailing arms bushings, but I might have forced a little the axles while removing the trailing arms that may could had help to misaligned the cir-clip. There were some metal shavings inside the boot. The loud noise was because the tripod was skipping over the tripod "cup" or CV joint housing... Question is.....Have this ever happen to you guys? I know that the use of tripod CV joints is the less common conversion here. Could this happen again even having the cir clip correctly installed. I put about 60 miles on this car before the trailing arm bushing installation and the car was driving pretty good with no problems or weird noises at all. Thanks in advance! Pictures for reference: |
Amenson |
Jul 29 2018, 01:33 PM
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That's opposite lock!! Group: Members Posts: 645 Joined: 27-May 05 From: Dublin, OH Member No.: 4,154 Region Association: None |
I had that happen with my first set of axles that were too short. I don't believe that clip is intended to take much force, possibly just there to hold the joint together when out of the car.
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914pipe |
Jul 29 2018, 07:43 PM
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Say......TEEEEEEEN!!!!! Group: Members Posts: 346 Joined: 31-July 04 From: Puerto Rico, now NC Member No.: 2,422 Region Association: South East States |
I had that happen with my first set of axles that were too short. I don't believe that clip is intended to take much force, possibly just there to hold the joint together when out of the car. That's what I was thinking....that maybe my axles are too short. I seen in other cars that use tripods and does not have a cirlip like ours. As the previous comment, I'm going to make longer axles or a spacer between the outer stub axle and the cv joint. Thanks for your response!!! |
BIGKAT_83 |
Jul 30 2018, 07:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,798 Joined: 25-January 03 From: Way down south Bogart,GA Member No.: 194 Region Association: South East States |
I had that happen with my first set of axles that were too short. I don't believe that clip is intended to take much force, possibly just there to hold the joint together when out of the car. That what I was thinking....that maybe my axles are too short. I seen in other cars that use tripods and does not have a cirlip like ours. As the previous comment, I'm going to make longer axles or a spacer between the outer stub axle and the cv joint. Thanks for your response!!! Gut another old CV and use it for a spacer. Worked for me until I got longer axles. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) |
914pipe |
Jan 2 2019, 11:55 PM
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Say......TEEEEEEEN!!!!! Group: Members Posts: 346 Joined: 31-July 04 From: Puerto Rico, now NC Member No.: 2,422 Region Association: South East States |
I had that happen with my first set of axles that were too short. I don't believe that clip is intended to take much force, possibly just there to hold the joint together when out of the car. That what I was thinking....that maybe my axles are too short. I seen in other cars that use tripods and does not have a cirlip like ours. As the previous comment, I'm going to make longer axles or a spacer between the outer stub axle and the cv joint. Thanks for your response!!! Gut another old CV and use it for a spacer. Worked for me until I got longer axles. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sawzall-smiley.gif) I did that and worked fine for a temporary solution. BTW these are 1995 jetta cv joints. Here are some pics: I drilled and taped the 2 extra holes in the stubs. This gave me enough time to design some spacer to use the 944 cv joints, since they are stronger and have the same spline count as the 914. I just took the axles today to the machine shop to cut/shave the axle so the 944 CV fit correctly. Here are some pictures. 944 CV to 914 stub adapter. I drilled and taped the other 2 holes in the stubs. another another I hope I can put together the car during the weekend! |
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