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2012-08-14 09:32:45
#21
Originally Posted by M0J0
Replacing balljoints is cheaper than replacing axles... Or at least, that would be logical.


Oops, I meant outer CV-joints!
2012-08-14 10:01:04
#22
Originally Posted by Mr
Originally Posted by 92SentraSE-R
Guess my post didnt post earlier :/ ball joints are easy to, just get a torch and heat it up till its cherry then hit it with a hammer and BOOM pops right out lol just dont touch it obivously haha




I can't do that. I dont have a torch, I dont know how to and I don't want to burn my house down

In case the ball joints are bad I will replace lower arms for brand new ones.


A torch is like 15 bux with 2 propane tanks lol I think you have a better chance of jfk coming to see you while your changing it than burning your house down :P
2012-08-14 16:27:44
#23
Originally Posted by 92SentraSE-R
Guess my post didnt post earlier :/ ball joints are easy to, just get a torch and heat it up till its cherry then hit it with a hammer and BOOM pops right out lol just dont touch it obivously haha


Be careful with the torch. When you get metal red hot, you start messing with the metalurgy and you could weaken the spindle.
2012-08-14 16:35:21
#24
It sounds easy, but for me to do something like that I have to see it first how is done. Will see if the problem gets fix when I install the axle tonight. If not, I'll buy new lower control arms.
Last edited by Mr SE-R on 2012-08-14 at 16-37-21.
2012-08-15 11:01:57
#25
It was the axle! put a new one and now the noise is gone. Will see for how long.

BUT,

I'm starting to hate this car. Every time I work on it something becomes a pain to fix. Even when fixing things that are simple, something goes wrong. What a fkg nightmare was last night. After I finished, went for a short test drive, when I get back into the garage and I see this big puddle of transmission fluid in the garage . I was so tired that I did not see that the trans seal was incorrectly installed. I had to take the axle out again, re-install the seal, and put everything back again, plus clean all the dam mess in my garage.

First time this ever happened to me installing an axle.
2012-08-15 13:41:32
#26
- Figured that's what it was. Glad you got it fixed. I have to pull my trans again after it was fixed for like 2 months. My car is still sitting because I don't want to deal with it. Get so tired of having to wrench on these things wasting my weekends.
2012-09-05 00:37:47
#27
Update! Feedback needed!
Well, , I though I did not need to work on the B14 for a while, but this is getting bad. Almost three week after I put these "new", "cheap", and pieces of $h!t autozone axles now I have a new problem. Every time I put my car in revese(automatic trany) or if the car shift hard I can hear this "kind of loud clack" noise. I though I had a transmission problem, I had no idea what the problem was, but the problem is the dam axles. Both axles were brand new. Also, got vibration at low speeds or if I accelerate hard.

Yesterday I took the driver side axle out and I put the old OEM axle. The noise was still there but not that too loud. Today I put the car on stands and and I noticed that the passenger axle has some play between the shaft and the CV joint. If you try to turn the shaft you can see there is some play and you can hear a click sound. The same story with the driver side axle that I took out yesterday. I compared this with the old OEM axles that I still have and there is no play whatsoever. To described this noise, is like the noise a rear wheel driver car makes when the U-joints are bad.

Now, what can I do? I dont really want another axle from them. The same $h!t will happen if I get another one from them. Can I get my money back? I have my two old OEM axles, there is any place in Central FL that I can get them rebuild? or do any of you know where I can get decent axles? Rockauto may be? Advance does not carry them and Napa axle are garbage. Nissan have them, but $480for passenger side and the driver side is a lot of money too.

Any recommendations?
Last edited by Mr SE-R on 2012-09-05 at 00-45-24.
2012-09-05 00:45:02
#28
Stop buying shitty parts. Sorry if my response seems brash, I am being brutally honest, sir.
2012-09-05 00:56:52
#29
Originally Posted by Kyle
Stop buying shitty parts. Sorry if my response seems brash, I am being brutally honest, sir.


I know! Any recommendations?
2012-09-05 01:04:38
#30
if its just the boots on your old axles that are ripped, get some boot kits an fix them your self..
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