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Is your car making clacking noises when you accelerate and turn, like this, now on a
front-wheel drive car, that means one thing, the cv joints are worn on the
outside in their clacking, and we'll jack it up to find out, then when we check
inside, we can see the boot is wrapped and all the grease has come out, so it's
time for a new joint, but in this case, we're going to replace the entire drive
shaft with the new unit, these cars are popular, they make tons of these whole
brand new units that cost a lot less than just the brand new joint itself and
it's a lot easier to replace the whole thing, than it is to take it apart and
repair the joint, now in this case we're going to Jack the car back down on the
ground to get the nut off, because it's an old car and it's probably going to be
stuck and I'll show you a trick, first you take the cotter pin out with a pair of
cutters, off it comes, then we take off the clip, then you get a socket that fits
the nut, a cheater bar, and a giant piece of pipe, then we put it on the nut, put
the pipe on top of it, then pull, and when you push enough, it comes loose, and
now that it's loose, we can jack it back up in the air and start taking it apart
and now we'll stick a jack stand, so it won't fall down and squash us, and we'll get the wheel out of the way, we'll take the
nut off, use a cheater bar socket again, and leave the nut on a little because we're
going to hit with a hammer to try to knock the tie rod assembly off, give it a few good
taps, then off it comes, then we take the bolts off that hold the strut to the
assembly here, then it comes off, now if you notice on the new axle shaft
assembly, there's a bearing here, that's held in on the inside on the frame of
the car, so we have to loosen the bolts that hold that and so we can slide the
whole thing out, it has a bolt on the bottom of it here, that you just remove,
and there's a clip here that you get a little pair of pliers and squeeze them
together to snap the clip off, I use these giant needle nose pliers and do it from
the outside here, you can see the clips right there, you just grab them with the
pliers, and once you release them they're loose and you can get the
assembly out, and out it comes, and of course match them up to make sure they're the same size, a lot
of times they send you the wrong ones, then of course slide it back in the
hole, then comes the really hard part, you have to snap that clip back in, it took me
a good 15 minutes of wiggling, but I finally got it in, then the shaft goes
back into the axle assembly here, I do a little bit of wiggling, but with enough
wiggling you can get the bolts in, get it nice tight, and put the tie rod back in,
then put a new cotter pin in and bend it over, so it doesn't come loose, and
tighten up the big lug but that holds the axle in place, put the cotter pin in
there, then put on the wheel and we're done, so next time your CV joint start
clacking, why not fix them yourself, and remember if you have any car questions just
visit the Scotty Kilmer channel and I'll answer them as soon as this
tornado passes over.