CV Joint Click?

[suff]

HI Guys,

Need to pick some of you suspension/driveline guys brains

My MY05 Wagon has developed a "click" when turning left (coming from the FRHS wheel).. Now at first that rang the CV joint alarm bell straight away.. its got the usual tick tick tick. How ever I have never heard of a faulty CV joint that does the following:

- Clicking only occurs when turning left, never when turning right
- Clicking randomly occurs when no lock is applied, steering is straight ahead?
- I can get it to click almost always (just one or two clicks) when I accelerate, brake or come off the gas (with out touching the brake)

To give you a bit of background, I am running slotted rotors (but given that under light application, there is no continuing clicking, I don’t think this could be the cause)

Also fitted are, whiteline sway bars, KG/MM Springs & bilstein shocks..

I haven’t actually jacked up the car yet and had a look, probably wont until the weekend, Wanted to pick your brains in preparation!

Cheers guys, and sorry for the epic post!

Chris

[gtspec]

ive had a similar issue but with my previous honda civic..

i thought it was the CV as well, but in the end after taking it to many mechanics found it was the wheel bearings... it had exactly the same symptoms as you have described..

a good way to check, jack the car up so that wheel is completely of the ground and see if you can move the wheel side to side..

[bydant]

These are all symptoms of a worn cv joint.

And since it only happens when turning left, hopefully it means that only the left CV is stuffed

Check the Faultfinding and diagnosis section of this page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-velocity_joint

But it would pay to check the wheel bearing.

[suff]

Would also pay to check that the shim on your brake pad's aren't fouling your slotted rotors

Much cheaper than a CV joint (or wheel bearing for that matter)

[bydant]

So does that mean that you had a look at it and that is the problem?