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anyone know what kind of costs i'm looking into replacing my cv joints. at least i think it's my cv joints, when i make corners, ESPECIALLY left corners, it's just an INSANELY loud clicking noise, but only if i apply gas, if i turn and just let my car roll, then there's no noise, but when there's gas, it's very embarrassing, lol. but yeah i don't really have a lot of money, so would i be alright with just fixing the one for now? and how much will it cost?

The best and cheaper and easier to replace the entire axles. They should run less than 150.00 for the axles...

okay, so when i bring it to the shop, what do i tell them i want replaced?

Why not just have them rebuilt? I think most places other than dealers give you rebuilt axles anyways. Atleast most of the places I called do.

i have a question....when replacing axels, is it ok to do just one side, or do people recomend doing the left and the right at the same time?

You can just do one side if the other is fine. It's best to replace both, but one at a time won't harm anything either.

Rebuilding can be just as expensive at replacing...

I recently replaced my half shafts myself. It was pretty easy and cost me around 150 for both after the cores of the old ones were brought back. but you also need to get a bracket pressed off the old passenger side and repressed onto the new one. but to replace a CV joint is the same amount as replacing half shafts. but its actually cheaper to replace the half shafts because you are replacing the whole thing rather than the cv joint itself. plus, the half shafts are easier takes about 3 hours to replace halfshafts and that's if you have no clue what you are doing. i think its 4 bolts on the drivers side and 6 bolts on your passenger side and your halfshafts are out... if you ahve any more questions just hit me up

so insead of having the CV's replaced, you should just have the whole axle replaced? Im assming this gets you the new cv;s as well then huh? I dont install stuff myself so what would it run a shop to do this?

i had to do this for the right side...it was 140 dollars...but i think i got raped!

140 including labor??? that's not bad, i was told, to do both sides, it would be 500 or more including labor

hahahah yea...just looked at the papaers it was 240 with aligment not 140 but i had no choice but to do it with them at the time since the car wouldnt move.

well i made an appt for wednesday at 8 30 in the morning! i'm getting both of them done, and including parts, labor, and tax.. it'll be $386 bucks (Canadian) i didn't think that was too bad, that's about 340US.. no more clicking!

You know, I have the same problem with mine right now but its only to when i turn the wheel to the right...and i've already had my cv joints replaced. I've had 2 different people look at it and they have both said that my CVs and my bearings are both good but they don't know whats causing the noise...so it may not be your cv joints at all.

it isn't hard to check if its your cv or not..just get under the car and shake your axle, if it has play in it then they cv is busted...

$230 for parts and labor for both sides. best deal I could find other than doing it myself.

so thats really all you have to do to see if its your CV's? what else could that clicking noise be or is there really nothing else because im also having that same problem BAD!

I took my car to a shop that specialized in rebuilding CV joints. I had mine rebuilt with a year warranty for $160 and im really happy with how they've held up. Raplacing them with new ones can get pretty expensive. I would try to find a place that specializes in rebuiling them and go with it.

i got mine replaced with brand new axles, boots, and joints, for 380 including parts, labor, and tax (canadian) and i have lifetime warranty on the axles and joints, and a year warranty on the boots.

Try to get a lifetime warranty on everything, I had to replace a "rebuilt" axle 3 times in 18 months, found out most of the cheaper rebuilts are just dropping new balls into the worn axle assemblies, adding grease and new boots, they dont last. If I do it again, I'll get new joints and put them on my axles or get a NEW aftermarket axle assembly, the new aftermarket ones are not that much more expensive, after the 3rd time I made them get me a new aftermarket assembly and paid about $50 more. (and with all the practice, I could change it in about 45 minutes:)

And the clicking IS most likely worn races and/or balls in the cv joints, no way to tell just looking at it.

more info:

http://www.raxles.com/default.aspx

This post has been edited by 97GTinKC: Mar 25, 2005 - 12:36 PM

nah i have lifetime on everything but the boots, so i'm not too worried, boots aren't that expensive to replace