What not to do if a CV is broken and you drive home

Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Location: Sydney

G'day all had the madest long weekend up at lithgow and when we started to leave some guy asked for help cause a MK was stuck (well thats his first problem) then got stuck myself got out drove up the hill and bang, CV right hand driver side, and a blown left hand driver tyre. all in about 2 minutes of each other.

Anyway drove home to hills area from lithgow about 80Km's

and this is what happened !!!

NOT HAPPY JANE!!!

Get truck back this friday

Thanks to Wayne and Len and Shannon for helping me limp home

cheers Guys

WHITTY

Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Location: Brisney Land

ouch dude not cool!
i hope the fun you had makes up for the carnage...

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:02 pm

Have done the same myself, had to drive 700km home before I could fix, by the time I got home I could only turn to the left, made very interesting driving through town Laughing

Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Location: Vic

ohhh
bugger
costly recovery eh
hope ur weekend was enjoyed tho

Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Location: Hobart

maybe next time you will pull the broken cv out (takes about 20 mins) live and learn!!!!!

Joined: 26 Jun 2003

Don't worry, we would have pulled it apart if we had of had all of the tools there... Matty, are we making a trip to toolworks this week?!

Joined: 02 Jun 2003 Location: Hobart

offroading with no tools or spares!! live and learn!!!

Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Location: Sydney

I had tools i just have never learn how to take a CV joint out before i guest it would be a cheaper alternative next time

WHITTY

Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Location: Melbourne Sth

Hey thats not to bad a friend smashed a nissan cv that bad it embedded into the inner ball lining & couldn't be steered, night drive in a bog hole yeh good. NOT Cool

Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Location: ACT

it's not bad at all. bit of a clean-up & a new inner seal and she'll be like new.

Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne

Any reason you didnt unlock hubs? for drive home?

Bazzle

Joined: 21 Oct 2002 Location: Near Mt D.

Top pick up Bazzle - BWahahahahahahahahaha

Payout! The Finger

Joined: 26 Jun 2003

packhorse wrote:

offroading with no tools or spares!! live and learn!!!

I want to bring you along next time packhorse.... you could have saved us

Joined: 26 Jun 2003

bazzle wrote:

Any reason you didnt unlock hubs? for drive home?

Bazzle

We did, but it had fragmented that much that it still didn't want to turn right... onwell matty... back to the trusty onl MQ for you Very Happy

Joined: 18 Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne

MQ080 wrote:

I want to bring you along next time packhorse.... you could have saved us

this from the boy who set out to do porters and cranstons with 2 or 3 hub bolts already sheared off........

10:30pm BANG!!!!

ring ring " hello roly , we are stuck at the bottom of cranstons can you winch us up please" The Finger

Joined: 26 Jun 2003

roly wrote:

MQ080 wrote:

I want to bring you along next time packhorse.... you could have saved us

this from the boy who set out to do porters and cranstons with 2 or 3 hub bolts already sheared off........

10:30pm BANG!!!!

ring ring " hello roly , we are stuck at the bottom of cranstons can you winch us up please" The Finger

What you didn't want to come?! ...i thought you wanted to test out your new (at that stage) lightforce products and see if you could do cranstons without any lockers... I must be mistaken Very Happy

Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Location: Castle Hill

Nah Roly wanted to come and see the mq drive cranstons in rear wheel drive that was quite funny.
One of the longest trips ever though taking 14 hours from porters to cranstons there was no airing back up that night

Joined: 21 Aug 2003 Location: penrith

I dont know what everyone else pays. but i can get new nissan cv's for about $200 each.

Steve

Joined: 15 Feb 2003 Location: Shed.

Roly if i were you i'd want to forget all about that night at canstons Wink