hello,

my '72 240z has made weird knocking noise from the rear left seems like forever now. i finally got around to taking the wheel off today and saw that the half-shaft is pretty much lose as it connects with the wheel. I could disconnect it with my bare hands. The right side is the complete opposite and very tight. What's there to hold that shaft to the wheel ?

I couldn't find any nuts or bolts. Nor have i found a diagram that would explain this to me. I'd like to fix this, just don't know how.

thank you for any info.

slav.

There should be four bolts, 4 nuts and four washers holding the half shaft to the hub assembly. Sounds like yours has had some "modification".

Regards

Joseph

Unless he's confusing the half shaft with the stub axle.. the stub axle is what connects to the wheel, not the half shaft.

If you remove the half shaft(or driveshaft from the diff) at the stub axle flange, you will see another large nut inside the flange that holds the stub axle into the strut housing which is connected to the wheel hub. After removing the large staked nut on the inside of the flange the half shaft is bolted too, you use a slide hammer on the wheel studs and that will pull the stub axle out of the housing.

By your description, it's hard to understand if it's the half shaft that is loose from the stub axle, or if the stub axle is loose in the strut housing. If the stub axle is loose in the strut housing, it may have snapped in half, which would cause a lot of noise as it is just spinning with the driveshaft but isn't connected to the wheel at all.....