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The Red Baron; It's about to get nasty up in here.
Topic Started: Jun 5 2014, 11:26 PM (14,352 Views)
bkelly
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dueces
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So I need to redo the motor mount on the passenger side as it is bouncing up and down under WOT. While doing that, the passenger CV is hitting the A-arm, so not good....

On to some good news though, my new laptop battery came in, so now I can spend more than 20 minutes in the car at one time! Hopefully I get some free time so I can install some gauges and the passenger seat, so it can feel like a real car again!

Thanks for looking!

John
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dueces
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Adjusted the motor mount and welded plates to the rubber mount to make it solid. This should keep the cv joint away from the a arm, but apparently that was never the issue, as under wot something is still hitting. Now the rear mount has vibrated loose....

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dueces
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So I think I have it narrowed down to being an issue with in the inner cv joint itself, or possibly an entire issue with my spindles.

So the first think that I'm going to do is grind out the inside of the inner cv joint for clearance, and then if that still doesn't help, I'll go back to the stock spindles and remake axles to compensate.
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dueces
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Speaking of stock spindles and axles, would anyone have a line on where I can get these?
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dueces
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Ok, I did a decent amount of work checking the car over for issues, and I found a couple things I did wrong. For one, the cross bolts that hold the hub to the strut had too long of a shoulder on them, meaning they never fully tightened on the strut, causing it to shake. Then I also found loose bolts that should hold the jack shift onto the engine. So I fixed all that, and still have a shake under throttle, and I'm starting to think there is an issue with the stock steering rack. So hopefully tomorrow I can try to tighten some stuff up on the rack and see if it gets rid of the shaking.

This is becoming tiresome working on this one issue!!!
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dueces
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Well, I'm still having no luck finding my issue with the wot shaking/knocking, and I tried tightening up the steering rack, and got nothing.....
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ZXTjato
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You'll find the issue man! It's probably some realy stupid.
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aaronvincent
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Mr Mojo Risin'

Tie rods maybe?
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pvr007
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Check your control arm bushings and ball joints. my guess is that your upper shock housing is to weak for all the torque, try to make a solid plate for the upper shocks.
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dueces
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Tie rods/a arms/ball joints are all new. I took the steering rack out of the car to look it over, and it feels pretty good. Right now the car doesn't have that much power, but I'll look at the shock towers.
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68custom


you will figure it out, we have faith!
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t3ragtop
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i have had those symptoms come from bad axles. when the cvbs get hammered they can make the front end shake.
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dueces
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I tore the cv joints apart and repacked them after looking for rub marks, which there were no one, so I don't "think" that is an issue.
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dueces
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Unless the end off the inner shift is pushing into the end of the cv.... but that should have left marks on the inside of the cv and there were none
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