type44 voilent shaking when high speed braking

[james accordino]

I think you got it.  The crunching or crumpling paper
sound is the key to me.  Really hosed ball joints or
inner control arm bushings will also cause this, but I
think they'd have to be "gone" to also cause the
crunching sound.  When the output bearing in my T*rsen
failed, that's fairly the sound it made.  Not really
so much grinding.

Jim Accordino

--- "Doyt W. Echelberger" <Doyt at NWOnline.Net> wrote:
> My 87 5ktq did that when the right front wheel
> bearing failed in a very
> unusual way. It didn't rumble or make any of the
> usual wheel bearing
> symptoms, but the whole damned rotating assembly was
> wobbly in the hub, and
> the pressure of the brake shoes disturbed that
> equilibrium when the brakes
> came on. The whole front end would shake. They had
> to drill out the remains
> of the bearing, but they saved the hub and nobody
> got killed.
>
> Yours may be something else, but that's what
> happened to me.  It wrecked
> the front brakes, and even required a new caliper
> and rotor.
>
> Doyt Echelberger
> Ohio   USA
>
>  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> At 03:11 AM 11/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >--
> >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> >
> >
> >car is a '86 5k NA automatic.
> >  after car is warm, if i brake decelerating from
> higher speeds (slowing for a
> >exit off the highway, etc) , car shakes VIOLENTLY
> when brakes are applied..
> >wont do it at low speed braking, and its
> intermittant.   bomb is new.
> >any ideas?   also hearing a "crunching" noise
> coming from LF strut tower area
> >while going over bumps. sounds like someone
> crumpling paper.
> >
> >please let me know if you have any ideas..
> >thanks
> >chris
> >'86 5kT
> >'84 5kT parts car
> >'86 5k NA moms car
>


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