When mine went bad the noise started small and occasionally went away, it
came back with hard acceleration and some turning then the heavy vibration
started.

Velma 82 1.9L AAZ td westy
On Feb 17, 2014 12:41 PM, "TonyCollin" <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does feeling play in and axle joint and small clicking mean the axle is
> bad?
>
> I have driven the van at different speeds including highway speed and I
> can't recreate the sound that was making me alarmed.
>
> I had axles go bad not just get better. I did not talked with the mechanic
> that actually tested the vanagon. I don't think that they would have needle
> grease packed the joint and not charged me. Heck they did not even charged
> me for the diagnosis.
>
> Thanks
> Tony
>
> On Feb 15, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
> I agree!
>
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> b1levi@yahoo.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 2:26 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Sounds Like a Bad CV joint?
>
> If the axles you have on there now are the original,  you might want to do
> yourself a favor and NOT toss that axle shaft.
>
> The aftermarket axle assemblies are crap, and if it's toast in 3 months you
> will not be able to put the good lobro cv joints on the Chinese axle, the
> splines don't match up.
>