2.5LOYALE C.V Noise?

[2.5LOYALE]

here is what i have going on. just swapped an ej 2.5 into my loyale wagon . my front passenger axle boot has been cracked and splitting since i got the car a year ago when it had the original 1.8L SPFI still sitting in it . its bad enought as to when im driving around now and the car gets warmed up its flinging grease all over the back side of my motor . but here is the weird part. when i have it in just front wheel drive i get a shakey acceleration. when i put the car in 4wd it does it much less on acceleration but when coming down in rpm's in any gear i get a "raaa, raa, raa" sound from around the c.v. axle are when im in the car, and i also get a wierd winding noise! but as soon as i take it out of gear and coast nothing. The Transmission has got a brand new xt6 clutch and had no leaks when the engine went in. i cant remember if it did this when i drove it stock with the 1.8l because it has been a long time inbetween projects. im assuming that this is probley the c.v axle failing because the lack of grease with the c.v. joints. These are original subaru c.v axles and they have almost 200000 miles on them. but before i got out and spend my hard earned money from the MAN ! I wanna see if anybody else has had this problem or can assure me that its probley the c.v. axles...........THANX..

[idosubaru]

definitely CV axles. when they start failing like this they create more noises/vibration when under load, everything you sound is exactly as i've experienced before.

 

not only that, but if you pack a bunch of grease in there all of your vibrations could go away. i would try that, if a good thorough greasing helps the vibrations i'd even consider rebooting these axles (though probably no one else would) but here's my reason why.

 

i drove my lifted XT6 2,000 miles (3,200 km one way) to colorado. both front boots busted on the way there (they sat outside in another car for awhile so the new boots were dry). anyway, i was elk hunting so we wheeled this thing up miles of mountain nasty trails to camp. so - 3,000-4,000 miles and offroading mountain trails later...i had to nurse the axles back and stuff grease in at every gas station stop just about. noise/vibration (mostly vibration) would go away immediately...but started back up quickly too because at highway speeds the grease flings out quick.

 

i had a ton of extra XT6 boots around so i figure why not give it a try so i rebooted those axles a year and a half ago when i got back and they're still running just fine, no noises or vibrations, smooth as silk.