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Had been posting progress on another thread, but as that OP has disappeared (don't you just hate when that happens?) rather than hijack that one I'll start my own.
and thought good news bad news (found problem but that tire is obsolete so now I need 4 new tires). That turned to more good news bad news when at the tire mart for an alignment (lifted 2 inches so that was totally whacked) and get some credit for a manufacturer defect, the suspect tire was put on the high speed balancer there was NO visible run-out.
I guess next up is go back and see if the axle itself has an issue, but I'm really not seeing how a axle could bend and create a movement like that.
Just replaced that rear wheel bearing which did have some excessive play.
Another thing I think I need is new spiders or shove some more shims in there. I think they're sloppy and I get accel/decel clunks after been driving for awhile (assuming something heats up). But again, don't see how bad spiders could create wheel motion like that.
Oddly, the guy who drove it around back says "You need new motor mounts". I said "Yeah I'm getting there". Although honestly they look good by eyeball and don't move a lot when crowbarred.
Is that your video of the actual problem - or just a video that shows a similar problem?
Because I don't think what that video shows can be the axle. It is showing what is most likely a wheel problem, or perhaps a tire problem.
If it was an axle problem the runout would cycle back and forth between a low point and a high point. But the video shows a tire that is stable through most of the rotation - and then has a sudden "blip". That has the hallmarks of a flat spot in the wheel. From hitting something like a pot hole.
Whatever that wheel/tire is doing won't go away by rotating it to a different position - but it can definitely change what you feel/sense in the cabin. Tire shops often put the worse wheel on the rear passenger side for this reason.
That has the hallmarks of a flat spot in the wheel. From hitting something like a pot hole.
Was 110% sure that was the problem too. But saw for myself on the high speed balancer it was fine (for an $85 tire anyway). And looking at it now there's simply nothing to fix. I know it's still a rear tire and they didn't pull a switchceroo because it has the residual bluing on it. They could have switched it to the passenger side but the passenger side is fine too.
05-10-2019, 03:44 AM
Chasing Vibrations
