Search | Car Forums | Gallery | Articles | Helper | AF 350Z | IgorSushko.com | Corporate |
| Latest | 0 Rplys |
|
Mustang Problem Diagnosis Got a problem you can't fix? Post here and one of our members will answer as soon as possible. |
Show Printable Version | Email this Page | Subscribe to this Thread |
|
Thread Tools |
03-14-2011, 06:42 AM | #1 | |
AF Newbie
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 13
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
Shaking, burning, hot rim, WTH?
Here's the symptoms I'm having.
Last night on the way home from hockey, about halfway home, I start slowing down because I’m coming up to a 35 mph zone in and the car starts shaking like crazy, almost like a tires out of balance, although I can’t pinpoint which tire it’s coming from. Then, I speed back up and I’m going about 55 and it’s shaking a lot faster. Once I cross 58mph, it stops shaking. I get home, do a walk around, and all the tires seem to be fine. While checking the last tire, front drivers, the tire looked fine, but I noticed a burning smell and it was really hot. I spit on my rim and it sizzled. This morning, I drove it to work. Everything was fine. No shaking, no smell, no nothing. Then I get about 2 miles from getting off the highway and I smell the burning smell again. This time the smell is really strong and I can smell it in my car. Kind of smells like an electrical fire. I slow down to get off the highway and no shaking at all, just a bad smell. I get to work, get out and feel the rim and for the most part, it’s cool to the touch, nothing like last night, but the smell was a lot more obvious. I don’t get any pull left or right so I’m assuming it’s not a seized up caliper. Just changed the tie rods so those should be good. I found a couple forums with similar issues, but didn't have the burning smell or the shaking. |
|
03-14-2011, 12:53 PM | #2 | |
AF Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: garner, North Carolina
Posts: 3,579
Thanks: 86
Thanked 100 Times in 100 Posts
|
Re: Shaking, burning, hot rim, WTH?
Bad wheel bearings, also see Similar threads at the bottom.
|
|
03-14-2011, 01:12 PM | #3 | |
AF Premium User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Clarks Hill, Indiana
Posts: 2,724
Thanks: 0
Thanked 28 Times in 28 Posts
|
Re: Shaking, burning, hot rim, WTH?
a locked up caliper will do that also you could have a colapsed rubber brake line running to caliper? try this take that wheel off open bleeder and see if piston go's in with c/clamp if it goes in easy i would think it is rubber brake line. piston go's in hard with bleeder open then i would suspect the caliper.
|
|
03-15-2011, 12:23 PM | #4 | ||
Stanger
|
Re: Shaking, burning, hot rim, WTH?
Quote:
What year and model is this happening too? If you apply the brakes hard when stopping, does the wheel want to pull in one direction of the other?
__________________
[size=1]-1950 Ford Custom, flathead V8
-2013 Ford Flex -1999 Ford F150 |
||
04-06-2011, 09:28 PM | #5 | |
AF Regular
|
Re: Shaking, burning, hot rim, WTH?
I agree. It does sound like a sticking caliper or rubber brake line. I have had the same issue and I just changed both calipers and rubber brake lines. Problem went away
|
|
|
POST REPLY TO THIS THREAD |
|
|