strange noise from right rear wheel.

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xagna
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Joined: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:56 pm

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I keep hearing this "ta ta ta ta ta" noise from right rear wheel. It has megan coilover and break pad was swapped about a month ago.

The noise is a lot louder during acceleration but is near silent when coasting at neutral.

I visually checked the wheel and I haven't seen a thing protruding or out of normal.

The noise is not metallic. It sounds like a plastic. But when I checked the wheel and wheelwell area, I haven't found any thing that got in the way of the wheel or break assembly. Only thing that I could think of was the loose break pad so I reassembled the break assembly and sound keep coming.

What could be the problem?



180fan
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Joined: Sat Dec 14, 2002 12:16 pm
Car: 89 fastback

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sounds like a CV joint's busted. Your coils dropped your car pretty good huh?

xagna
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Joined: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:56 pm

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180fan,

I dropped it all the way down which looked good cosmetically but produced too much roll. So I brought it back. =-)

What is CV joint and how do I inspect this?

I tried wiggling the wheel after jacking the car up and it is solid. So ball bear seems fine.

180fan
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Joined: Sat Dec 14, 2002 12:16 pm
Car: 89 fastback

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Your axle joints. They're busted. As I figured you slammed your ride, put too much stress on the axle joints and now you got a busted axle. Happens alot with the 40, hence why I mentioned the drop on them coils.


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