Help! Found nickel size ball bearing
 

Help! Found nickel size ball bearing Under the Z. I wasn't working on anything nor do I have ball bearings in my garage whatsoever. I don't know if this is from the Z or not but found it when I backed out the car from the garage.

Here is the picture. Any ideas?

EDIT: More pics on the bottom

https://s21.postimg.org/emy05wbqv/IMG_1417.jpg

Looks to clean to have been part of the car. Check inside your underwear.

Could be a ball out of a drive-shaft CV joint ??

Pretty unlikely though since a failed CV joint will be noisy ......

Some kids playing marbles around your house?
CV is the only explanation l can think of...


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Ball out of a muffler bearing?

Looking at the size of the ball. Best guess is either cv joint or it's not part of the car.

POKEMON? jk:rofl2:

CV joint. Hmm, maybe?

https://adailydriver.files.wordpress...02/cvjoint.jpg

Excellent pic

Do a visual inspection of your CVs. For one of the balls to fall out of the CV pictured, the retainer would have to be broken (the one in the pic looks cracked) - should be pretty obvious.

Awesome pic and it looks exactly like those ball bearings.

Z drives fine, no weird noises or anything. Nothing looks broken or loose from the underside of the car. I took some pics and I'll post them below

I'm no mechanic but I think it looks pretty normal. What do you guys think?

https://s16.postimg.org/6ygdf1dl1/IMG_1422.jpg

That's your rack and pinion. You need to inspect the rear. Both sides of the axles. Look for tears in the cv joint boots.

Yes inspect the shafts that go from the rear differential (the pumpkin in the center of the rear) to both wheels. You will find the rubber boots covering the CV joints there. Inspect them for any wet oil or fluid on the boots first, then there will be a crack and further inspection may reveal a bad CV joint. Its all good, no need to feel foolish.

Thanks for the comments, We all got to learn this stuff somehow.
Alright these are the rear, from the differential and from the rear wheels.
Initially, no rips, no drips, no tears. What do you guys think?


https://s17.postimg.org/69o9xj2f3/IMG_1429.jpg

https://s17.postimg.org/yb2bb87pb/IMG_1431.jpg

https://s17.postimg.org/mzznmv0u7/IMG_1432.jpg

https://s17.postimg.org/i2m31qyv3/IMG_1433.jpg