Well!

I ran into something weird last week. While turning my car on a very steep hill with a 5 year old axles, the front-right wheel ended up in the air (very stiff suspension). It spinned and when it hit the ground, it transfered the power to the driver side axle and blew it at the end closed to the tire.

I just replaced the axle and I am having a weird driving.

Here are the symptoms:

1. It seems that while accelerating the car, the driver wheel is faster than the passenger one. While braking it seems that one is stopping faster than the other. It feels that the driver side end wheel bounces more than other side. I am trying to decribe it as best as I can.
2. I am getting some noise while turning to the right. It sounds like something is rolling under the car, under the gas pedal area.
3. The car is lowered and when driving in an irregular surface (the car is bouncing), it feels that the driver's side wheel is more loose than the passenger one.

The car has the following: OmniPower front camber kit and Tein Coilovers

I am looking for some hints/checks for me to determine what is causing the problem: Tranny, LSD, axle, steering, etc

Note: I have not alligned the car nor balanced the tires.

 

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Sounds like your axle isn't fully clipped into the transmission on the driver's side. And don't post ten seconds after I hit "Post" saying, "Oh, but I know it snapped in to place!" because I've done swaps and tranny replacements before where I "snapped it in place" and it came undone when I put the car on the ground.

Double check that and get back to us.

 

I had an axle come "unsnapped" after my tranny swap and my car wouldnt even move...it just sat there and revved in gear

 

Well it is all the way in.

I went to the shop for balance the tires and allign the wheels..... that was really screwed up. Both sides were very negative camber and the wheels were pointing... one to heaven the other to hell. No wonder!

I have not stress tested the car but I will placed the results here after I have done it. I like to start a problem and place the solution(s) as well.

I appreciate your comments!

 

A bad allignment really fukcs up the characteristics of the car.

My deal is that I'm redoing my sedan's suspention/steering completely. After lowering I had crazy camber, put on an ingals kit which gave me terrible toe-out, replaced bad steering rack and didn't have time to readjust the now 8+ degrees of toe-in I had. Car felt like a bad shopping cart, when one wheel would loose a SLIVER of traction, it'd dart towards that side, also pounded over certain bumps (the sound, not actual movement - like riding on bumpstops half the time), and steering was VERY loose (also 'deleted' PS by recirculating hoses).

<U>Cliff notes</U> - bad toe-out, and then to bad toe-in, made my car feel like ****. A eyeballing fix to tie-rods made allll the difference - night and day. Getting it alligned next week.

Driving with one wheel (LSD, welded diff, or spool) will make it feel very odd. Jack it up, put into gear, and spin a tire to see if the other does.