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Old Mar 18, 2013 | 04:01 PM
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Default Differential clunk on left driver wheel !help

friend c5
first of all, its not the additif !
when i roll, i hear a big clunk in the driver rear wheel
and its in the differential and it look like the shaft is square
i dont know how to tell you the feeling, but it look like something rolling and not rolling anymore, lique a square, clunk, and its continuing after.

we dont remove the differential yet.

do you have an idea ?
clutch pack ?
shaft ?
rack pinion ? gears ?
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Old Mar 18, 2013 | 07:58 PM
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lube cv splines
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Old Mar 18, 2013 | 08:30 PM
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it look like inside the diff...
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Old Mar 20, 2013 | 03:09 AM
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I was talking with my friend who is an Infiniti tech. He told me the G-series car have the same clunk issue and the repair is the same, lube splines and retorque the axle nut.
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Old Mar 20, 2013 | 07:00 AM
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i dont think the solution his to lube something

when the clunk apear, the wheel jam on the road nad the tire made a black strip !!!
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Old Mar 20, 2013 | 09:34 AM
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sounds to me like something broke inside the diff and the debris is getting caught in the gears. it could be a number of things, but I'm guessing you will need to rebuild the diff.
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