my issues fixed... updates and advice
Hey people
just some info maybe someone could learn from
had a very bad vibration/bouce in the front.. wheel shakes and all that goodness!>> it sucked.. Thought I had a bushing/balljoint failing.. I did. I ordered a control arm kit for 130 bucks.. the Whole front!! from carparts.com.. was a little unsure about carparts.com but they had it shipped to my house in 3 days.. happy! I ended having a stripped lug so i could only change 1 upper control arm and tie rod ends.. that helped alot for a little while, then it came back and worse..
I went to get an alignment, they soon called and said the tire was bad. wow, the tire had a huge cave in totally unsafe cracked.. Probably drove it 500 miles, im lucky it didnt blow..
I took it to a tire shop and they hooked me up with some used tires for the front and got the stripped lug bolt out. 80 bucks mounted and balanced, STOKED.. got a new tire shop.
the car is rolling SMOOTH, night and day difference , its so nice!
Moral of the story is.. Check your tires! I had it jacked up 4 times trying to find this noise moving the wheel side to side to find play, but never spun the wheel with my hand across it, i would have noticed the major deformation..
probably cause my e brake is sticky, so i leave it in gear on instead therefore i couldn't spin the wheel, i dont like doing that, does any one know how to lube up the E brake cable?
just some info maybe someone could learn from
had a very bad vibration/bouce in the front.. wheel shakes and all that goodness!>> it sucked.. Thought I had a bushing/balljoint failing.. I did. I ordered a control arm kit for 130 bucks.. the Whole front!! from carparts.com.. was a little unsure about carparts.com but they had it shipped to my house in 3 days.. happy! I ended having a stripped lug so i could only change 1 upper control arm and tie rod ends.. that helped alot for a little while, then it came back and worse..
I went to get an alignment, they soon called and said the tire was bad. wow, the tire had a huge cave in totally unsafe cracked.. Probably drove it 500 miles, im lucky it didnt blow..
I took it to a tire shop and they hooked me up with some used tires for the front and got the stripped lug bolt out. 80 bucks mounted and balanced, STOKED.. got a new tire shop.
the car is rolling SMOOTH, night and day difference , its so nice!
Moral of the story is.. Check your tires! I had it jacked up 4 times trying to find this noise moving the wheel side to side to find play, but never spun the wheel with my hand across it, i would have noticed the major deformation..
probably cause my e brake is sticky, so i leave it in gear on instead therefore i couldn't spin the wheel, i dont like doing that, does any one know how to lube up the E brake cable?
Last edited by dombombBMX; Dec 17, 2013 at 01:21 AM.
Its more likely the sticking e-brake is because one or both the rear calipers is bad. The seal on the little lever the cable attaches to is a common failure point. When the cable pulls on the lever, it just doesn't return.
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