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nonsensekid20
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 Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:42 pm Post subject: Front end problem |
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| Ok, so I'm driving down the road, and the front end wants to rock back and forth. Ideas? |
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chevymad
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Air up the tires?  Could be anything |
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nonsensekid20
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| chevymad wrote: | | Air up the tires? Could be anything |
hahaha. no thats fine. However my back left tire is a bigger profile tire than the rest. and the rims are all the same size. Could that have something to do with it? BTW I have no idea why that is.. Need new tires anyway. hahah |
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chevymad
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| If you have a posi then thats gotta be changed right away. You'll burn it out running unevenly sized tires. |
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Schultzy89GTA
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| nonsensekid20 wrote: | | my back left tire is a bigger profile tire than the rest. |
You will fit in just fine here son.
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chevymad
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| Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Schultzy89GTA wrote: | | nonsensekid20 wrote: | | my back left tire is a bigger profile tire than the rest. |
You will fit in just fine here son.
-Schultzy |
Only if he doesnt have enough lug nuts. |
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nonsensekid20
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Sadly, its not posi. so thats not an issue. I'm gonna borrow a set of tires from Luke and see if that fixes it. |
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Twilightoptics
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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What do you mean rock back and forth?
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91camaro_rs
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| Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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i think maybe he is having idler arm/pitman issue
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blue89
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nonsensekid20
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:24 am Post subject: |
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| blue89 wrote: | One of my rear tires were bigger than the other for a while. Then I got posi.
I'd check your bushings. If youve never replaced them they probably are rotted out. |
Yeah I think its the idler/pitman bars. They should have bellows on them correct? or bushings of some sort. Theres nothing on there right now. Either they're completely worn out or they're just gone. haha. |
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91RSVert
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| Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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nothing in stock form on the front has bellows.
At the joints, they did come with some bowl shapped rubber cups to help hold in grease and keep out dirt.
With the car on the ground. Reach down thru and grab the linkage and try wiggling on both sides. If anything wiggles more then about 1/8", something is bad(its going to flex a bit just cause its metal and it bends) If you can lay on the ground and crawl under the car, it would be even better.
Next would be to jack it up and check wheelbearings. Then possibly using a prybar between ground/tire, check the lower ball joints(make sure car is VERY secure first) |
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blue89
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nonsensekid20
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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| We're going to check the ball joints. If they're bad can we just take them out and put in new ones? |
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