Thread: You've got to be effing kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It all started with a loud clunk in the front end. It's been there for a year now, and after replacing various suspension parts, I finally decided to check the axle. Yep, that was the problem...I was soooooo relieved. sooooo, i ran down to advance auto parts and pick up an axle and seal for the driver's side and ran home.

an hour later and i was back on the road with no clunk, and absolutely zero vibration. my gtp was like new. i was so excited...until...clunk. i pull over and look under the car to see tranny fluid dumping on the ground. luckily i was three houses away from my house so i hurried into the garage, jacked it up and what did i find? the axle had pulled out of the transmission about an inch and a half. so i thought, well, dang, maybe i didn't get it snapped in all the way. so i pulled everything apart, shoved it in the tranny and it "kinda" snapped in place. so i reassembled everything and went for a drive again. this time it lasted a couple miles and then "clunk." i knew what it was, luckily i was a block away from home, so i ran 'er into the garage and sure enough...it had pulled out again.

So now I know i did everything right and it still pulled out. So I pull the axle and go back to Advance auto parts. I exchange the axle and head back to the house. to save a little time, result was the same(unbelievable, I know!!) Back to Advance to have a little chat. They pull another one off the shelf to compare and sure enough all them are the same...however, two of them have been returned and not by me...so i know something is up.

I head home to reassemble my axle and take it up to Advance. we sit my old one next to a new one, and there it is...an inch and a half difference. the new one was too short. I get my money back and go to O'reilly's. They pull a new one off the shelf and I pull it out of the box to compare...you guessed it, an inch and a half short.

I do know that the cv axle is made to move in and out a little, but when they are both sitting there on the desk and you pull on them both equally they both came out equally and likewise compressed equally, they were just and inch and a half difference.

So the guy grabs a reman'd axle and it was dead on...I'm not crazy about reman'd axles, but at this point I was sooooo excited. I bought it, ran home installed and backed out of the driveway. it was soooo smooth and I tried to temper my excitement but I could help a fist pump or two, until...."clunk." The original problem is back.

So I did all this crap 400 times and I'm back to square one...What do I do now?

Any suggestions...I'm not putting another reman in and I don't want one an 1.5" too short!

RockAuto Auto Parts

Give this a try. I'd be willing to bet you get the right one this time.

the clip is just fine...in fact, i inserted the old shaft back in to make sure the clip was functioning. and its next to impossible to pull out. so now i know that not only is the axle to short, but the way the axle mates with the tranny is also messed up. i'm headed to napa today as i need my car and don't have time to wait for ordering one. i guess if the one from napa is bad, i will put the crappy one in from O'Reilly's and drive it til one i order one from raxles or rock auto. I can't believe an hour job has turned into this big of an ordeal. I'll keep you guys posted as to what happens next.

I'm also interested to see what happens with the duralast...please update!!

I would change the snap ring on the end of the output shaft with a brand new one. Your existing one may look good, but if it has lost tension, or is worn, it may not hold properly, hence the probelm you are having.