Q: I think my cv boot came off!

asked by on October 18, 2016

Car starts and revs in gear just fine, but when it moves there's a rapid clunking noise to my rear drivers side wheel. It almost seems like all the power is going to that one broken cv axle, that is it feels like

My car has 150000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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