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front end banging


pbarrett143
12-04-2007, 05:32 PM
i can drive and then when ive driven a certain time it sounds like my axle is banging on something under neath my feet and when you let out of the gas or push in the clutch it stops but when you get back into the gas it starts banging again any ideas

jeffcoslacker
12-06-2007, 02:33 PM
Exhaust hanger broke, pipe rattling against tunnel would be where I'd look first.

pbarrett143
12-06-2007, 04:29 PM
but its a heavy vibration banging and ive done changed the stabilizer bolts and the front torque strut. Would an exhaust hanger cause it feel that heavy and be that loud????? Once it starts it bangs or hits with the speed of the wheels, like it will start slow if your driving slow then it speeds up as you do.

jeffcoslacker
12-06-2007, 04:58 PM
OK I don't think it's exhaust.

Torque strut was gonna be my next guess, but you covered that.

Strange that it follows wheel speed. So even if you downshift and let it rev higher, it will still occur at road speed, not engine speed huh?

And you have to drive some distance before it starts doing it?

Have you checked the subframe mounts, where the cradle bolts to the body? There's a mount right by the front of the floorboards, when the bolt breaks or the body rusts around it, it'll pound on the floor....

You don't feel it in the steering wheel at all, right?

What year is it anyway?

jeffcoslacker
12-06-2007, 05:05 PM
Another thing...a broken radius bar or a missing bushing in one will let the wheel walk fore and aft rapidly... sound transmits through the cradle to the floor...

pbarrett143
12-10-2007, 01:21 PM
thanks for all the help but ive found the problem to be a busted cv boot that has caused the joint to go bad resulting in my axle banging around because of too much play. btw its a 1990 model

jeffcoslacker
12-10-2007, 05:27 PM
That's different. Usually they will do the clickety clack when you accelerate with the wheels turned, but not straight line...

Was it an inner or outer?

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