lapaul
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- los angeles
Coming back from coin operated car wash, where I washed the underside of the car, I was near my house going up a steep hill, when my vehicle slowed down and started making a horrible clanking noise.
It was a narrow street and cars coming the other way were blocked and getting impatient. I got back in the car and tried different gears and found it worked only in part time low, so I went a few blocks to my house in part time low.
When I got there and looked underneith I was shocked to find I was missing my drive shaft from where it connected from the center of the vechile to the rear differential.
That explained why only part time drive was working and why I had no problem driving in part time drive. I was pulling the car only by the front wheels.
I went back to find the drive shaft and found it where I had the problem.
It looked intact except for where it hooked into the rear differential. The U joint had apparantly broken. The two bolt like parts top and bottom that fit into holes in the part that was attached to the rear differential were twisted, as was the grease fitting. The hole in the part of the joint that attached to the rear differential looked a bit ragged to.
I don't know if the bolt like parts twisted after the dirve shaft fell off from
being banged against the vody of the vehcile and the ground or whether this caused the problem.
Any ideas why this happened. How complex will it be to fix it.
Any suggestions as to where to get a replacement.
I had just washed athe underside using high pressure hose at a coin operated
car wash, but find it difficult to believe that would cause the drive shaft to fall off.
It was a narrow street and cars coming the other way were blocked and getting impatient. I got back in the car and tried different gears and found it worked only in part time low, so I went a few blocks to my house in part time low.
When I got there and looked underneith I was shocked to find I was missing my drive shaft from where it connected from the center of the vechile to the rear differential.
That explained why only part time drive was working and why I had no problem driving in part time drive. I was pulling the car only by the front wheels.
I went back to find the drive shaft and found it where I had the problem.
It looked intact except for where it hooked into the rear differential. The U joint had apparantly broken. The two bolt like parts top and bottom that fit into holes in the part that was attached to the rear differential were twisted, as was the grease fitting. The hole in the part of the joint that attached to the rear differential looked a bit ragged to.
I don't know if the bolt like parts twisted after the dirve shaft fell off from
being banged against the vody of the vehcile and the ground or whether this caused the problem.
Any ideas why this happened. How complex will it be to fix it.
Any suggestions as to where to get a replacement.
I had just washed athe underside using high pressure hose at a coin operated
car wash, but find it difficult to believe that would cause the drive shaft to fall off.