re grease and rotation is a waste of money. The clicky axle will be back in 6 months
Have to disagree, sorry, doogyrev and myself did his more than six months ago, but we noticed that there was a swaff ball of metal between the 2 machined mating faces. This was deburred and a light smear of grease was applied.
With regard to the grease in the joint, if the boot has not split, and there is grease within the cv joint, what clicks and why would new grease be required in the first place?
We thoroughly checked doogyrevs cv joint, and found the grease was in good condition and there were no losses of grease at all, all the rotating surfaces were covered in grease, there was no gritty feeling within the grease at all, so one would assume that there was no metal to metal contact and the grease was intact doing its job.
Everything we witnessed pointed to the mating faces as mentioned already. So, if all Nissan do is rotate and regrease, and not clean off the burr from the mating faces, then yes I would agree that the click will return, however if done as we did, then I think the problem will be gone for another couple of years, or more.
I am positive, the click has nothing to do with grease. It's all friction related on the mating faces, which are pulled together with enormous amounts of pressure, one small foreign body between the faces will cause the click when torque is applied,
We noticed a witness track where this ball of metal had been rubbing. When I say ball, it was no more than 0.4mm diameter.
This is my opinion and written without malice, just an honest appraisal of what we found doing doogys car.
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