Hello everyone,
 

i've got trouble with my 90 sidekick cvhalfshafts. its driving me insane!!!, i have 235/75/15's
and the shafts are loose behind the steering knuckle and in 4X4 it roars awful VERYloud it quits on acceleration but push in the clutch and it roars i have checked the lockouts and the bearing seem to be fine but i can move the halfshaft at least 1/4 of an inch in all directions very loose and i can't tell how to tighten them that clip is all there is the only thing i can think of is cutting threads into the shaft and trying a nut but i don't know i'm goin nuts.

please help me!   

P.S. i have changed the brass inserts in the back of the knuckle???

Have you replaced the shafts recently?
They aren't supposed to move that much,
Did you by chance somehow get CVs from a Sidekick Sport? or GV?

Wild

Why do you ask if they came from a Sport or GV?  Different spline count, diameter, length, or something else?

Sport is wider, and the GV has different length long side axle, about 1/4" longer,
so I'm just trying to sort out what's going on

um i just went to autozone and told them 90 suzuki sidekick and thats what they gave me so they do seem to me if they where a little bigger in diameter and a little shorter it would help ALOT

i had the vehicle in 2006 and it did it then who i sold it to just pretty well let it sit and i recently baught it back but it needed shafts when i got it in 2006 and replaced them imediatly so it pretty well has done it since i have had it and also i mistaked it for bad hub bearings till i replaced them with WARN lockouts so idk?

Autozone shafts are all rebuilts, could be a mis boxed one, or is it both sides?

both sides can't get over 7mph in 4x4 lol

does the splined end of the CV bang around loose in the spindle hole too?
Or does it just move in and out of the spindle?

it doesn't move in the sindle hadly at all and the snap ring fits good had no trouble with the ring either

So where is the 1/4" movement you are having trouble with?

on the back side of the tire i can lay down grab the cv and wiggle it all over

In the same area that you changed the bushings? It shouldn't do that there,
are you sure the CV isn't broken? the shaft moves or no, the whole CV cup part 

yeah where i changed the brass bushings in the back the whole shaft moves as far as i can tell its a good shaft boot is good um the cv shaft its self all moves as one unit inside the spindle.

like i said it has got me stumped i guess i can pull one out and take it in and mic a new one see if there is a difference?  or are you thinking a shaft off a whole different vehicle?