clicking from passenger rear wheel area

[johnny]

The 73 started clicking on acceleration and deceleration yesterday. The sound is coming from the passenger rear wheel area. Thinking axel, sub axel, wheel bearings, brakes maybe? Any thoughts on where to start looking appreciated. Thanks!

[TTyMiller]

brakes are my guess since I had the same sympytoms a while back. cable was loose and causing the clicking as the wheel went round and round.

[H_Krix]

it sounds idiotic, but check to see if there's a nail in your tires.

Its happened to me...

[BarryA]

state light-load cruising or no-load coasting, a CV joint is the more likely culprit (ever heard a front driver going click-click-click when turning and accerating at the same time?) - similar noise.

[Guest Anonymous]

BarryA is right (Barry usually is!) This may sound silly, but in addition to the nail/pebble in the tire, or some weird brake issue (I have had a cracked brake drum that made a click noise) take a visual on the CV joints. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them has a cracked/leaking boot indicating a potential problem. Naturally, just as BarryA said, the boot doesn't have to be cracked or broken for the CV joint to be worn out.

[Bill_Riblett]

Yet another way to check for a suspect CV joint is to jack up the car so the wheel with the suspect joint is off the ground. Then lower the car and drive off. If the noise is gone, there is a good chance the CV is bad.

Jacking it up apparently shifts the innards of the CV around enough to spread some grease around, at least for a while.

[MichaelP]

Do you have stick on wheel balancing weights on the inside rim? If so, check those first. I went through the pain of finding (that was the hardest part) and replacing CVs and the noise was still there. Turned out it was not-so-sticky weights flopping around on the rim and hitting the caliper.

[rogerspeed]

check everything, the rear wheel bearing can go bad as well as the splined stub axel and matching hub

[johnny]

Ok thanks, CV sounds about right, it's really more of a thump than a click. Sounds just like when I blew a CV on a front wheel drive. How difficult is it to replace the CV? Looks like a dirty job for sure. Any one got a ballpark shop estimate? I'd like to do it myself, but without a garage right now it wouldn't be fun!

Thanks again!

[Guest]

Don't forget to tighten your lug nuts.

Been there, done that

Collin in Scottsdale

76 Chamonix

[MichaelP]

The biggest problem is that 02 CV joints from BMW are NLA. I got a pair from Jim at Mesa. It's messy, but not a difficult driveway job.