I replaced my CV joint and axle assembly on my LS swapped EF hatch. Now when I accelerate it pulls bad to the left (the side I replaced). When I am cruising or have the clutch in rolling the car stays straight. Anyone have any ideas on why it pulls to that direction while accelerating now?

 

might have overtightend the axle nut.

 

^ +1 that would be my guess

 

I tried to tighten it to the same depth as the passenger side...I didn't think you could over tighten it since it was a bitch to get off. Would it have ruined anything by overtightening?

 

if you only replaced one side its going to pull ...
it happen to me on my integra...replacing both solved it but it might not the same as your problem

 

Well I just got them torqued to 134 lbs like the haynes manual states and I am going to take it for a spin to see how it drives now. I only replaced one side because only that side was bad...now the car accelerates smoothly and doesn't make any grinding type of sounds. I did this same thing to my friends car when he snapped the joint at the track one night and his drives perfectly fine. Well, I have to take it for a drive now and I will see if the problem is fixed.

 

might need to be aligned. maybe, never had such a problem when i replaced one bad axle on my b series swapped ef hatch.

 

It still pulls...I'm thinking that when I had my alignment done that the axle was going bad already so now that I have a good axle in it is actually pushed out of alignment...just sucks because I dropped 60 bucks on the job about 2 months ago and now I have to again.

 

the axle might be out of balance.

 

I doubt that because it would probably vibrate then while cruising and accelerating and it doesn't. It drives smooth except it will pull fairly hard to the left while accelerating.