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You won't feel it really on a straightaway at speed. When your at speed the axle is "straight" and balanced with a constant forward motion, any slack caused by a damaged CV is tight. When you decelerate the motion relaxes and allows the slack to "clunk" or vibrate. However, if the axle damage is more advanced, you can get quite a vibration at speed. When you are turning, the stress on the outer joint intensifies the slack caused by bad ball bearings in the joint, causing the signature click and pop.

 

Your wheel is not going to fall off, I drove from Vail Colorado, to St. Louis, MO on two jacked up cv's that blew going over the pass.

 

I have yet to see the inner DOJ go bad, in my case it has always been the outer CV.

 

Kurt

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