Car barely moves and makes terrible noise
 

Well this goes along with the terrible month for mitsu's. Last night I go to drive my car. When I put it in gear and let the clutch off and give it any gas it makes a loud clunking/ grinding noise from the left front. After trailering it home it wouldn't even move. I took it apart and none of the splines are wore away on the axle and no shavings are in the tranny. My dad looked at it as i was pulling it off the trailer and said half the axle was spinning. So the transmission was turning but it wont turn the wheels.

Any ideas?

Tomorrow I plan on looking for a used axle just to see if it will fix it. It never did it before last night.

Re: Car barely moves and makes terrible noise
 

Center diff blew up is my guess. Do you have the transmission out yet?

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No, I don't have it out. Its on a 95 n/t daily beater, I wouldn't think it would have enough power to wreck anything internally.

Re: Car barely moves and makes terrible noise
 

If the axle is spinning but the wheel is not, it's a broken cv joint.

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Thats what I was thinking, but I took the boot off and it doesn't appear to be damaged. Theres a little play in it but didn't seem like it would be enough for the noise it makes

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Well if you said the splines on the axle and in the spindle are good, then it can only be the axle

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thats happend to me before, its the axle

Re: Car barely moves and makes terrible noise
 

lol I was assuming it was a awd for some reason. My bad lol. Broken cv joint sounds right. Are the boots ripped?

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Good thing an axle is a cheap fix, I hate putting money into this thing as is. And nope, no tears or anything in the boot. It was just weird taking it apart and not seeing any obvious damage