15 Camry 4cyl FWD. 60k miles.
occasional front end click noise (single click, not repetitive), when it does happen it happens when shifting from drive to reverse (while car is stationary and brakes are applied). nothing loose in front end as far as steering and suspension parts go, brakes are brand new, replaced a few weeks ago. noise also happened with old brakes.
The only play in anything that I can find is in where the brake rotor meets the hub, when you remove the wheel and rotate the rotor by hand, there is a slight amount of play (I believe this isnormal) but I'm not sure. this is the only possibility I can think of, as when shifting from drive to reverse, the change in direction of the CV axle would obviously rotate the wheel in the opposite direction, thus causing this "click".
Not sure where to go. Noise only seems to happen on driver side front.
check the CV axles and if you can make a recording of it
It definitely sounds like an inner cv joint or the splines might be dry causing the noise. Most commonly it’s axle or poor pad fitment allowing the pads to shift but since it happened with the old brakes I would start before replacing the axle you could use a heavy duty like brake grease on the axle splines and see if the noise goes away
so to grease the splines I would just need to separate the steering knuckle from the axle, grease the splines then re-assemble it?
if the vehicle is in park how much play should there be if you try twisting the axle by hand? mine has a small amount of play to it
Inside the joint there shouldn’t really be any. If there is I would replace that axle and just make sure to grease the splines on the new one
You would have to take off the axle nut and press it in if you wanted to still try that. You don’t need to lube the whole splined section more the inner part where it mates to the bearing