Loyale CV Clicking on right power turn

[MR_Loyale]

93 Loyale Sedan FWD, get clicking on right turn only when applying power. Which axle is the issue? Or is the indeterminate?

 

I am driving to Las Vegas in April so I want to fix this before then. I supposed I could just replace them both. Boots look like new. One was changed last July and the other about 6 months before that. These were O'Reilly remans.

[idosubaru]

have someone stand outside the car or you while someoen drives and see which side is louder?

alternately can you guess which side it is - like it "seems" to be from one side or the other?

 

the DOJ's can actually click to i believe and that might be harder to diagnose which side since they're both so centrally located.   i have one doing this right now and i know which axle it is but i haven't driven it in a few months to note which way turning makes it click.  it's a different click than the standard outer CV joint clicking.

 

typical aftermarket axle garbage. 

 

better off rebooting your original Subaru OEM's.  if they were OEM axles you can drive them making that noise just fine for years and tens of thousands of miles without issue.

i wouldn't trust an aftermarket to do that.

 

Let's call the left axle L, right axle R, and new axle N:

 

replace L with N. 

if the noise goes away you're done.

 

if the noise doesn't go away then:
replace R with L

 

you can likely guess which axle seems to be the issue based on sound - or which one had the boot previously ripped open the longest or in roughest terrain (saw more offroading or more winter road treatment, etc):

that way you buy one axle and not much extra work and even likely no extra work if you have any symptoms to make a good guess with.

 

www.car-part.com for Subaru OEM axles and reboot them with Subaru boots.  i've had aftermarket boots only last a 2-3 years so kind of getting tired of them.

Edited March 1, 2015 by grossgary