dam..... fireworks and sarkles bro, I just ordered the cv's yesterday. don't want my frunt end exploding on me mid freeway like my engine did hajha

Quote Originally Posted by tom4bren View Post
After I parked my VX on the side of a van on I95 a few years back, there was no body damage but some suspension tweeks happened (primarily the sector shaft on the steering box). After all repairs were made, my outer CV on the driver side exploded. I was able to convince the insurance company that it was hidden damage from the accident.

As near as I could tell, the bearing cage must have gotten cracked & it took a while for it to fail. Once the cage was no longer retaining the bearings, it acted much like the loss of the clip mentioned above. The shaft was just dangling by the inner CV.

Fun ... fun ... fun ... fun ... fun.

Luckily for me I had enough spare parts left over from a previous re-build that the axle shop was able to put it back together again.