2010 Dodge Ram CV Axle Binding
Hello everyone, I am coming here to get some advice on something. November of 2025, I was given a truck from my father. The CV Axles were completely shot so I got on rockauto, bought some new ones, and set off to a buddy’s shop to get them installed. On the driver side of the truck, the CV Axle would just NOT go in properly. Long story short, we got it in but it would only spin freely under load. We just left it like that because the boots on my old ones were honestly just GONE. Fast track to current day and I am having a binding on that side in my steering. We put it on the lift to see what was happening and he explained it as the cv axle was at its maximum angle it could be at just sitting in the air. He said he wasn’t sure why it was like that, and that everything was seated correctly. What are my next steps with this? Also, the CV axle was a slight bit thicker than the OEM one, but rockauto didn’t sell them by driver side or passenger side (at least the ones i got).