Vibrations
I got a 95 acclaim 3.0 auto. It's a great running smooth car.
Only issue is I have a vibration in the front when I turn right.
It only happens under power and only when turning right and it literally feels like the front end is gonna come apart.
This makes getting on the interstate kinda scary. I can corner hard off the gas or to the left without any issues.
I have recently replaced both bearings, tie rod ends, struts, ball joints, brakes, so none of these are the issue.
Any ideas?
Only issue is I have a vibration in the front when I turn right.
It only happens under power and only when turning right and it literally feels like the front end is gonna come apart.
This makes getting on the interstate kinda scary. I can corner hard off the gas or to the left without any issues.
I have recently replaced both bearings, tie rod ends, struts, ball joints, brakes, so none of these are the issue.
Any ideas?
Ok I have also been told it could be a cv axle going bad? any truth in that?
Are you getting a noise similar to the sound of knuckles cracking, when you turn? That is a good indicator of a bad axle. It is possible though to get a vibration from one getting ready to fail. Are the boots torn or damaged? If they are you may have gotten contaminates in the joint i.e road grit, when these contaminates enter the joint through the tear in the boot it gets lodged inside the moving bearings and causes the cracking noise and vibration. Another thought when you changed the bearings did you remove the axles, and drop them? If you did depending on how hard it hit the floor, and where it landed it might have slightly bent the shaft.
I sometimes get a crack noise when i turn, like something binding. I didn't do them myself so I can't say, but it was doing it before the bearings were changed. I think I remember the passenger side having a tear in it when I did the struts.
I've had both the cracking noise and the vibration checked out by the dealer and they couldn't come up with anything other then the joints on the axles potentially causing it.
I just wanted some more knowledgeable advice before I went and bought axles. (seeings they claimed to have not worked on an acclaim in 5 years.)
I guess the axles will be my next place to go then.
I've had both the cracking noise and the vibration checked out by the dealer and they couldn't come up with anything other then the joints on the axles potentially causing it.
I just wanted some more knowledgeable advice before I went and bought axles. (seeings they claimed to have not worked on an acclaim in 5 years.)
I guess the axles will be my next place to go then.


