I just got new axles replaced at the dealership by a friend of mine and now the car shakes pretty hard while accelerating, but then goes away during cruising. They were replaced with axles from Bap Geon. The ONLY thing I saw was that the connection between the driver's side axle and intermediate shaft had a little bit of play but nothing excessive.

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Modified by 1SlowSi at 4:01 PM 9/30/2008

 

So i put in the autozone axles and same thing, shaking down low-mid in the rpms. I cant figure it out!!!! I highly doubt my half is jacked cause when i had the stock axles in they were fine. So what gives?

 

I will give a little more detail here. I had this Si with a stock b16a2 Si and 5 lug conversion. The conversation is bare minimum and still utilized the Si lower/upper control arms. Recently I just put in a fully built motor and a few other goodies.

Here is the setup:

LS/VTEC
GSR Tranny with Quaife LSD - used
Hasport motor mounts


After the swap was put in, i reinstalled the stock Honda axles and everything seemed to be fine. I replaced the stock axles with with a pair from Bap Geon, and after the install, the car started the shaking. Last night I replaced those with some axles from Autozone and still got the same thing. I didnt see any play with the half shaft, but i may replace that for piece of mind.

So what is left? Am i supposed to run ITR axles because of the 5 lug converstion? Im gonna put the a new set of stock axles to see what happens.




Modified by 1SlowSi at 3:59 PM 9/30/2008

 

Your grammar is terrible. It's difficult to understand what you're saying, and to figure out what you're asking.

So you had work done and then it started vibrating under acceleration? Ball joints wouldn't cause a vibration unless they're totally loose. Put Honda axles in there. Rebalance the tires and get your car aligned.

 

My apologies. I was losing my mind. I re-worded it for you for better understanding. Sometimes I do that.

As far as the next step goes, yes, i am going to re-install a set of good honda axles and see what happens. The balancing/alignment will be done soon after and I'll report back.

Anthony

 

some of the axles have a weight that's in the middle of them. Some don't. I've gone through 7 axles with the same problem your describing and eventually found that the weight on the axles was the cause, once I cut it off it was all better

 

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I wish you would have said the opposite haha. On the 2 sets of new axles, there are no weights but on the stock honda ones there are. Hmm. Im still waiting for this guy to get back to me on his honda axles he's selling to me.

Im wondering if the honda axles have more tolerance for lowered cars vs autozones and other aftermarket ones. Maybe the Honda ones dont get affected by the change in angle from being lowered? who knows, just a thought. I think i read where someone raised their car back up and it was perfect again. Luckily i have a shitty suspension setup that im about to change out with a nice set of coil overs so i can raise the car up an inch.