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To answer your first question: I have no idea why it happened.
Last night I drove it home and it was fine, today I start it, it drives down the street fine until I take a left turn and it starts clunking like crazy.
I figured maybe it was a loose axel since it happened once before but everything looks fine.
So I waited for my father to get home form work since he's a car genius and after some testing we determined its a bad diff.
Reason being: When we lift the front end of the car and put it into drive with the handbrake on (so as to spin the one front wheel thats off the ground) it grinds like CRAZY.
The funny thing is it doesn't make any noise in a straight line or going right, only left.
So my father figures one side of the diff has a bad pinion.
I looked over the service manual and the prodedure for transaxel removal seems relatively un-ridiculous considering the size of the task.
My question to you guys is: How difficult is this going to be?
For a 16 year old econobox, is it even worth the time and money (and just how much money are we talking about)?
Last night I drove it home and it was fine, today I start it, it drives down the street fine until I take a left turn and it starts clunking like crazy.
I figured maybe it was a loose axel since it happened once before but everything looks fine.
So I waited for my father to get home form work since he's a car genius and after some testing we determined its a bad diff.
Reason being: When we lift the front end of the car and put it into drive with the handbrake on (so as to spin the one front wheel thats off the ground) it grinds like CRAZY.
The funny thing is it doesn't make any noise in a straight line or going right, only left.
So my father figures one side of the diff has a bad pinion.
I looked over the service manual and the prodedure for transaxel removal seems relatively un-ridiculous considering the size of the task.
My question to you guys is: How difficult is this going to be?
For a 16 year old econobox, is it even worth the time and money (and just how much money are we talking about)?