First off, it's not a VR-4, but a GS-X... but I digress.
There has been clicking under sharp turning for a while now (since I got the car) and then last week I got a little too excited in a very large gravel parking lot. One particular low-traction slide ended on the high-traction tarmac and I drove off grinning. The car doesn't really like to break loose in anything but the snow, but when it does... oh boy, so much fun.
Anyways, the car was fine, drove it around, no change. I was getting on the highway last night and I felt a *clunk* and then a shift in weight distribution. I thought I maybe ran over a large rock, and since nothing really seemed to have changed, kept driving. Once I got off the freeway and put it into 1st I realized that something was wrong. Any power at all elicited a quite horrible clunking noise from the front right side of the car.
I'm fairly positive it's the axle, and I'm in the process of removing it. My questions are:
1.) Know any tricks for breaking the lower control arm off of the knuckle/hub?
2.) If you've only got jack stands and don't have a lot of room to get a good size prybar in between the tranny and the axle, what is a good trick you guys have for removing the axle from the transmission?
Thanks a lot you guys.
-Gary
(PS: The car has 286,000 miles on the ORIGINAL un-opened 4G63... I really do love this car...)
There has been clicking under sharp turning for a while now (since I got the car) and then last week I got a little too excited in a very large gravel parking lot. One particular low-traction slide ended on the high-traction tarmac and I drove off grinning. The car doesn't really like to break loose in anything but the snow, but when it does... oh boy, so much fun.
Anyways, the car was fine, drove it around, no change. I was getting on the highway last night and I felt a *clunk* and then a shift in weight distribution. I thought I maybe ran over a large rock, and since nothing really seemed to have changed, kept driving. Once I got off the freeway and put it into 1st I realized that something was wrong. Any power at all elicited a quite horrible clunking noise from the front right side of the car.
I'm fairly positive it's the axle, and I'm in the process of removing it. My questions are:
1.) Know any tricks for breaking the lower control arm off of the knuckle/hub?
2.) If you've only got jack stands and don't have a lot of room to get a good size prybar in between the tranny and the axle, what is a good trick you guys have for removing the axle from the transmission?
Thanks a lot you guys.
-Gary
(PS: The car has 286,000 miles on the ORIGINAL un-opened 4G63... I really do love this car...)
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