First, I have a 91 Integra. I developed a bad vibration on my way home from school last week, and have already changed the upper and lower ball joints, as well as the outer tie rod. Still have no luck on the problem. I have search a lot on here to find what could be the cause and after running the car on jackstands today and still getting the vibration I have determined its probably an axle. This is suprising because the axles on the car are less than 2 years old. Does this sound correct? Also, me not owning a honda for several years, is the right front wheel supposed to spin very little when I have the car on the stands like that? The shake seemed to be coming from that side. Any help or things to check would be greatly appreciated. Please dont tell me to check my wheels and tires, I'm way beyond that.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RacerTim &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">First, I have a 91 Integra. I developed a bad vibration on my way home from school last week, and have already changed the upper and lower ball joints, as well as the outer tie rod. Still have no luck on the problem. I have search a lot on here to find what could be the cause and after running the car on jackstands today and still getting the vibration I have determined its probably an axle. This is suprising because the axles on the car are less than 2 years old. Does this sound correct? Also, me not owning a honda for several years, is the right front wheel supposed to spin very little when I have the car on the stands like that? The shake seemed to be coming from that side. Any help or things to check would be greatly appreciated. Please dont tell me to check my wheels and tires, I'm way beyond that.</TD></TR></TABLE>

First off, the wheel that turns more than the other is your drive wheel. If it were an LSD, than both would spin with the same consistancy. It it probably not your axles.
1) I assume (if you have not checked yet) that it is a wheel bearing. Jack your car up again and wobble ALL of the wheels toward you to see if there is any play. If there is ANY at all, replace it.

2) If it is not you wheel bearings, check your rotors. Warped rotors are usually the problem.

3) This is rare, but it happend to me. Check your engine mounts to make sure they are holding up. My driver side mount went out dropping the engine an inch or so causeing my cv axle to bunch up on the drivers side causing vibration in the steering wheel after acceleration.


4) good luck

 

balance your tires. if you were 'way beyond wheels and tires' you would know that.

 

It sounds like it could be a bad CV joint.. does it vibrate mainly on acceleration? One of my axles went bad pretty much instantly like that and caused a lot of vibration/shaking under acceleration.

Does it do it at all speeds or only at a certain speed? Only under acceleration or all the time?

 

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1) I assume (if you have not checked yet) that it is a wheel bearing. Jack your car up again and wobble ALL of the wheels toward you to see if there is any play. If there is ANY at all, replace it.
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I'm going to have to agree, it probably is a wheel bearing, but even if there is no play it can still be a bearing so don't rule it out. I knew mine needed to be replaced, but there was no play whatsoever when I jacked it up. Even though after I had it done, the mechanic showed them to my dad (I was away at school), and my dad said they were like ripped to shreds and I was lucky I didn't seize an axle or something.