Re: CV joint or inner tie rod[200/1991]

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Re: CV joint or inner tie rod[200/1991] posted by Don Foster on
Thursday, 22 February 2001, at 2:54 p.m.

Wow! A really valuable lesson, and for free!

Your car is rear-wheel drive (RWD), and CV joints (constant velocity) are used in the axles of front wheel drive cars.

This is one shop to avoid from now on.

Clunks in the front of 240s come from:

a bad ball joint
loose nut on the top of the shock tower
cracked shock tube (not common -- but it happened to my '83)
Bad tie rod end (either inner or outer or both)
Worn or missing sway bar bushing
Worn upper strut bearing (not common)

Most likely is a bad ball joint.

--
Don Foster (near Cape Cod, MA)

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