type 44 Violent shaking....

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

Put it up on a lift with the wheels dangling, and hug the offending suspect
wheel and try to wobble it on the axle.  Mine was obviously loose beyond
belief.

Doyt

 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
At 02:14 PM 11/4/2002 -0800, you wrote:
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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