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Old 07-20-2016, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Jerramie Garlock
One more thing, was checking out the rear wheels and noticed the hub assembly moves about 1/4-1/2 inch in and out when pulling/pushing on it, I imagine this means the hubs are bad? this is on both sides of the rear axle.
That movement is normal, it is due to the play of both axleshafts ends with the respective c-clips going in and out of the gears into the differential housing.
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NO! A c-clip axle shouldn't have that much play in it! MAYBE a 16th at most. The c-clips are captured between the side gears and the planetary cross-shaft. With that much play, the c-clips can fall out. Pull the cover and look at them! If they're gone, the brake rotors are the only thing holding the shafts in.
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NO! A c-clip axle shouldn't have that much play in it! MAYBE a 16th at most. The c-clips are captured between the side gears and the planetary cross-shaft. With that much play, the c-clips can fall out. Pull the cover and look at them! If they're gone, the brake rotors are the only thing holding the shafts in.
Sorry Dave, i couldn´t explain myself properly, because it is hard for me doing it in english, you´re right, that 1/2 inch play is too much, but maybe Jerramie thought that it shouldn´t have any play in that part.
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Oh...wait! 93 has rear drums, right?
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Yes, rear drums, also the play back and forth is 5/16th to be more precise, and i have not yet managed to get it balanced.
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Alright guys, so i finally resolved it.

After replacing all of those components I took it in for an alignment, on the way to get the alignment i had no issues, and coming back from getting it aligned it did this like 7 times -.-

I just figured there was something i missed so i started going over all the components i hadn't checked, such as the rear suspension, the shocks, ext. After checking all of this and finding no further issues I decided to go back and check the rest of what i had checked before.

Come to find out, the track bar bracket to frame bolts were loose "i could spin them freely with my fingers" which is extremely unnerving considering i double checked the torque on these before the alignment, and at 95ft lbs its highly unlikely that they backed out on their own... I guess this shop will no longer be getting my business. "I also made the mistake of telling them what the original issue was and why i had replaced everything myself"
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