Quote Originally Posted by tom4bren View Post
Dang. RedBlur - Ya jinxed me.

My son was driving the VX last night & said it was making a horrible noise from the front end. I just went out & checked it. The front outter CV on the drivers side went bye-bye.

The end of the shaft is completely out of the outer race. The cage and all of the balls are gone. The inner race looks OK but the end of the shaft is pretty chewed up. I stuck my finger in the outter race and there's a lot of sharp splinters in there so I didn't investigate it any further.

It was easy to pop off the boot on the inner CV and pull the retaining ring out. Turning the wheels all the way to the right gave me enough room to remove the shaft.

Bad time of the year to be running without 4WD but at least it's driveable now.

Hope RCV gets on the ball with those new shafts. I'll be calling them on Monday to light a fire under them. Definitely a higher priority for me now that I'm the one that needs them.
I musta been having a KAT moment. I didn't even think of the fact that it was the driver side front wheel that took the hit in the accident. Could it be related?

I've got a call into the insurance adjuster to see if there's any chance that insurance will buy me a new half shaft. I'll keep you posted.