so i start hearing this clunking noise like i ran over someone and their arm is caught in my rear suspension just swinging and hitting against the underside of my car every time around...

went to mazda to check it out and they said my drivers rear axle is bent and i need a new axle, hub, bearing and caliper... says the axle and hub are moving back and forth due to being bent cause caliper slides to ware and case noise.

any suggestions? i put my car up on jacks stands and let it drive itself in first gear to check it myself and i can see it moving like its bent and if you look at the wheel you can see it swivels like its bent too because of the shaft...

 

What the hell happened to it?

 

i thought at first it was because of my wreck and then i noticed it was the drivers side and i wrecked the passenger side... into a ditch kinda thing not anything serious.... but the passenger side is lined up fine so i dont know!!

could something like a big pothole or really quick shift flooring it kinda thing many times do this??

 

Well as long as you need to replace the axle, contact Charles R. Hill. He is getting some heavy duty ones made up.

 

Don't you have one left over from Dom's car or did you get rid of it?
You know that if it had been Dom's arm under there............the collection plate would be filling up on here right now!
You'd be rich!

 

what are you talking about ? it is Doms arm! haha....yea i do have the whole rear end subframe assymbly but thats a lot of work. Anyone know if there is an easy way to pull the halfshafts without dropping the diff? the replacement would be easy to get off but i dont really wanna drop everything outa my car! lmk...

if charles wanted to do a core trade maybe i would be interested... dont know though

 

well i guess im going to start this in the morning... has there been a DIY for rear axle replacement?! lol........