Help I lost front wheel drive.....

[LittleBeast]

Today I replaced one of my shocks on the rear with one of the rebuilt ones from Bruce's suspension, and while I was down there I rotated my tires and greased all the sway bars and grease u-joints, etc, and guess what I noticed?

MY PASSENGER SIDE CV is toasted!

This is acctually good news to me, I am just glad I don't have to remove the Diff assembly again

Lots of rattling in the Pass side CV, like marbles in a metal can. I can freely turn the drive shaft to the front and all it turns is the pass side green cup, that is it, nothing else moves.

QUESTIONS:

-should I remove my stock CV and have it rebuilt? Anyone have any contacts?

-should I just buy a new CV joint? It is the inner balls/cage that is toast. Anyone have any contacts for this?

-should I just call Indy and see what they say?

Thanks everybody, I have never delt with a busted CV joint before, I am just glad it was not something worse.

[Triathlete]

Try a search for Grandpa Bob/Green dragon. I believe he has posted about a place where he had his CV's rebuilt. Good luck!

[ironman99]

Howdy Guys and Gals, I'm resurrecting this zombie thread because I find my self in a similar predicament, but first a short story...

When winter was finally upon me up here in the great white north I noticed my VX was driving a lot worse than it did last year. At first I simply attributed it to worse road conditions than last year and that my tires just suck at snow.
Later on, driving up to the Ski hills in even worse road conditions I noticed that driving up hills was nearly impossible, any acceleration beyond a slow crawl on the steeper parts and my back end would slide out, that is when I started to suspect something was definitely wrong. I confirmed it later that day when I decided driving through a 2 foot tall embankment of snow would be a good idea and I damn near got stuck. I stuck my head out the window to see how the tires were spinning and sure enough, I wasn't getting any spin out of the front wheels, not even in 4 low...

Up until today I had no idea where the issue could be, my only clue/suspicion was that I had done some work on my CV joints and rebooted them a month or 2 before the first snow fall. I finally decided to do some more investigation and I just wanted to share with you a short video of what I found...
http://youtu.be/xgEIzTkZO8Q
If you can't tell from the video the right CV boot isn't spinning at all so I think I found the problem LOL.

Unfortunately I don't think I will be able to look into the problem any further for another week due to work. In the mean time, what are y'alls initial thoughts on what might be going wrong in there?

[Triathlete]

Is the front drive shaft turning?

[ironman99]

Yes, the only thing that isn't spinning down there is the front left axle, and front right wheel.

[Triathlete]

Your front end will only have one wheel spinning. It is an open diff so if one side is sponning the other will not be.
Now if neither side is spinning you have a problem.
You basically have to srart at on end and work your way in. Start with the hubs, then cv, axle shaft, inner cv, green cup and then you get into the diff (spider gears ect.)

[Dmitrikr]

look at outer side on video - cv boot at the wheel - outer cap is not turning - hence problem is inside outer cap would suggest to go back to whoever did cv boots for you. look like they forgot to put lockring back in place.