Originally Posted by Pyts

Throwing in an extra penny's worth: blown suspension can lead to premature failure of cv shafts. their deal is maintaining rotation at an angle, and blown suspension allows a lot more and more aggressive (un-dampened) fluctuation in that angle.
I just did CV shafts on another vehicle and I even had to replace the intermediate shaft. I'd replaced one of the CV shafts about 3 years back but wasn't greenlit for refreshing the front end. Same shaft 3 years later started making a racket every time the car took a turn.
additionally, the intermediate axel shaft (two-piece affair) was out of round/wobbled in rotation coming out of the trans, causing a trans fluid leak from the related output seal. Pretty big deal!
All that stuff works together When one part can't carry its load, the conjoined ones bear it to their detriment.

Originally Posted by Zardiw

There really wasn't any slop. That was just normal back and forth play in the axle/trans gears I think.

Z

Originally Posted by Drew21

Now you've made me curious. When I get a free hour I'm going to pull my front wheels and check. I don't recall having that movement in my 2010 (A/T) when I changed rotors and pads last summer.

Glad you got it all back together.