Rear wheel/half shaft cv movement?

[dyl33]

Hello sau, 

my r33's rear wheels have movement back and forth exactly like in this video. pretty sure its the half shafts outer cv. What do you guys reckon?

 

[niZmO_Man]

I reckon you should take the wheels off and replace all the broken and worn out bits.

[GTSBoy]

^ This.

[dyl33]

46 minutes ago, niZmO_Man said:

I reckon you should take the wheels off and replace all the broken and worn out bits.

 

3 minutes ago, GTSBoy said:

^ This.

Awesome, do you think the half shaft cv is where the broken and worn out bits will be

[GTSBoy]

Could be.  The splines on the end of the shaft or in the hub are also possible.  Just about all of that stuff is getting sloppy in these old jallopies now.

[dyl33]

Are the shafts easy to remove/replace on the 33? Do you need to undo ball joint and suspension stuff? Or can you just unbolt and manoeuvre them out?

[GTSBoy]

Shafts are piss easy.  Fall out from the inside.  Hubs/splines are obviously much more trouble.  You need to dismantle all this to find out what is wrong with it before you go buying stuff though.

[hardsteppa]

Having had  the same movement, i rebuilt the cv's, replaced bearings, new bushes, new diff centre with perfect backlash...i still have the same movement.  However..

[dyl33]

16 hours ago, GTSBoy said:

Shafts are piss easy.  Fall out from the inside.  Hubs/splines are obviously much more trouble.  You need to dismantle all this to find out what is wrong with it before you go buying stuff though.

Ok cool figers crossed its just the shafts.

3 hours ago, hardsteppa said:

Having had  the same movement, i rebuilt the cv's, replaced bearings, new bushes, new diff centre with perfect backlash...i still have the same movement.  However..

For real?  hope i dont play that game

[GTSBoy]

I've done essentially the same as steppa, with the same result.

[admS15]

I learnt from gts boy and stepper and did sfa and noticed no difference. Car drives fine with that type of movement, even at 240+ km/h. My advice is leave it alone unless the wheel is going in/out from bearing wear, that would require attention.

[hardsteppa]

ok now watched the video...looked normal to me. Diffs don't have zero backlash, they have a small amount for a very good reason, which is visible as a bit of turn in the driveshaft like that, when not under load.

the 5 bolt driveshafts on the r33 gtst use a 5-ball cv joint in both the inner and outer, which for most purposes is as strong as fk, there's nothing in there to ' break' really, only wear a groove at best, unlike the 3x2 bolt shafts which I believe use a 3x ball bearing race on the inner. I rebuilt a spare set of shafts and they had exactly the same movementousness as my old ones, which when pulled apart had no visible wear. 

What I am getting at is if you're not having any ' issue' as such, the bit of movement like that is unlikely to be any concern. 

 

[dyl33]

Ok maybe It's nothing, there's no bearing movement. Drives normal only thing i can think of is I get an odd click when taking off sometimes was thinking that could be related. Not continuous just once.

Here's a vid of it, car jacked up in neutral handbrake on.

 P1370539_2.mp4

Handbrake off in gear.

 P1370541_1_1.mp4