Hi. I am doing a front cv joint, hub, bearing, ball joint, and brake replacement on my 1989 mini thirty.
I have bought new CV joints, which were fitted to the original driveshafts with a new circlip and packed with grease. The hubs/bearings/ball joints were a built set from minisport.
The nearside is fine, but the offside has slight play when I rock the brake disc. The play occurs up/down and left/right. I don't think it's coming from the suspension as the wobble doesn't occur if I rock the brake caliper. Also, I observe the CV boot clip (large one) moving slightly relative to the static hub when rocking the disc.
I followed the Haynes instructions to tighten up the assembly by using the special washer and then torque-ing up (250Nm) to pull everything together.
Any ideas as to what this might be? My thoughts so far are:
- Broken circlip: I pushed the CV joints on rather than compressing the circlip with pliers. It went on with a few firm pushes as the CV joint was greased. Maybe it broke?
- Wheel bearing: broken/distorted, incorrectly aligned?
- CV joint: some issue with the internals?
Is this play normal and just a result of the CV joint moving in some way? I would guess not as the nearside seems to have no play at all.
Cheers
Chris