CV axle issues.

[XeVeNskyLiNE]

Ok, here's the backstory. About 2 months ago, I got into a slight accident where a pickup truck nearly ran me off the road and caused me to understeer into a curb (it was raining). I bent a lower control arm and split open a cv boot. Well I replaced the control arm and the cv axle, which were on the driver's side. But I still didn't get the car realigned. Everything was honky dorry for a bout a week until I noticed an unbearable vibration coming from the passender's side. I'm guessing its the passenger's side cv axle is going bad now. The symptoms are that under steady acceleration in 2nd and 3rd gear, it has a constant "vroom vroom, vroom vroom" sound and feel to it. At highway speeds it does the same. Also, when I turn left a decent speed, it has a constant shake thats more like "vrooooooooom" noise to it. My question is, am I right assuming the cv axle is bad? Or will an alignment cure it? Or both, which is probally the most logical answer.

Thanks in advance.

[nofear39427]

My grandpa's Subaru GL started making the same noise that your car is and it turned out to be the wheel bearing.Good luck dude

[Black99GST]

wheel bearings are a BITCH! good luck!

[XeVeNskyLiNE]

Oh damn, always fun to hear DSM guys saying something to fix is a bitch. K I'll look more into it, any other opinions?

Edit: I was searching around trying to find out if I need any special tools to replace the bearing, but I never got a straight answer. So dois it possible to change it with just a regular set of tools, or do I have them pressed by a shop. I heard an alignment shop will change those out, and I need an alignment anyways.

[NOFX0617]

Sounds like wheel bearings...and I think you can just replace the entire hub for not too much...

[XeVeNskyLiNE]

Ok, I decided to bring my thread back up instead of starting a new one.

Here's the update, a week ago I replaced the entire wheel hub, and in the process, replaced the cv axle to (rust-welded, mushroomed the axle bolt beating it out). So here's the deal, my shaking when turning right is cured. However, when I acclerate, I'm still getting shaking that seems to be speed sensitive. When I hit 25-35mph it shakes, and then again once I get to 75 and above.

Here's a few things that may be affecting it. I need an alignmet, after whacking that curb sometime ago, I still haven't gotten it aligned. The other thing is that I have some spacers up front that I had to grind out a bit because they were meant to fit a 4 lug. I don't think it'd be that, but its a possibilty. The last thing is that maybe that wheel isn't balanced, howver I just bought new tires for it about 2 months ago and it was balanced for free. So what do you guys think it may be? I'm hoping an alignment will cure all, but then again, nothing suprises me with this car anymore.

[TalonEclipseMixGsx]

I dont think not having an alignment would cause it to shake, just maybe drift on you while going straight or premature wear on the tires. If a wheel weight were to have fallen off that would cause your tire to be out of balance and shake. That happened to me once. Also another thing that caused it for my car was by putting a lot of that fix a flat into the tire. During the winter in alaska it would freeze up and my car would shake real bad. Once i finally replaced that tire and got it rebalanced all the shaking went away

[XeVeNskyLiNE]

Yea I was considering having all the tires re-balanced.

[MazdaX]

Originally Posted by TalonEclipseMixGsx

I dont think not having an alignment would cause it to shake, just maybe drift on you while going straight or premature wear on the tires. If a wheel weight were to have fallen off that would cause your tire to be out of balance and shake. That happened to me once. Also another thing that caused it for my car was by putting a lot of that fix a flat into the tire. During the winter in alaska it would freeze up and my car would shake real bad. Once i finally replaced that tire and got it rebalanced all the shaking went away

Isn't Alaska fun ? 6 years was enough for me lol.

Anywho, you may have a bent rim also. O.o

[scottsee]

Everything was honky dorry

That makes me want to spit..

[gthompson97]

Either the tire(s) are out of balance or those spacers are not correctly balanced. Get an alignment and get the tires balanced and it should cure all the problems, otherwise you either fucked up something bad when you hit the curb or the spacers are not in balance. But I'm thinking it's the tires out of balance, get an alignment too though, you're probably wearing the shit out of those tires without an alignment, especially after hitting a curb.

[XeVeNskyLiNE]

Its getting aligned and rebalanced after Xmas, and new spacers are being shipped in. I can't believe people try to sell those things for $150 and over, people are on crack these days. To the person who said it might be a bent rim, I already took care of that because the initial wreck broke the lip off. The only thing that was noticeably fucked was the lower control arm (the curved one). So hoping its just unbalanced wheels. I did notice when I first got the wheels, it had sticky weights to balance it, and when I got new tires on them, Discount Tire put sticky weights on top of the other sticky weights. Wtf, lol.

[gthompson97]

Tell them you want them balanced statically (with the sticky ones), not the old fashioned way with the weight on the outside.

[XeVeNskyLiNE]

Well I thought I'd bring this back up instead I starting another one. Well I've replaced my front-right wheel hub assembly twice (the first one was faulty), and I've still got that shake under acceleration and highway speeds. A friend of mine was saying it could be a tie rod gone bad also. I've never messed with one of those before, but I'm gonna take a look at it eventually to see if anything's out of the ordinary. You guys have anymore ideas on what it could? Everything's been balanced and aligned, so its gotta be a part somewhere no acting right.