front end vibration

[myeclipseisnice]

ok well i got this annoying front end vibration but seems its only on the driver side... the vibration only happens when i give it more then 75% throttle. the steering wheel doesnt vibrate tho, what can it be? can it be my axles? cus i know i need them. can it be that the wheel weights feel off my rims and its now unbalanced? this vibration doesnt happen when i brake.

 

[AWDGUY86]

It cant be your wheel wiats by the sounds of it because a wheel that is unbalnced does not make that much vibration from the sounds of it. I know that some of mine are unbalanced and it makes no vibrations.

 

[myeclipseisnice]

another thing is that if i have my driver side window half way up, and when i give it throttle the window and the driver mirror shakes so much i cant see clearly whats behind me through the mirror

 

[myeclipseisnice]

ok so at my job i order 2 new axles for the front of my car. 40 each! nice i made out, cus i get cost at my job .... no labor cus i put the sucker in =) no vibration and a pat on my back

 

[sonicnofadz]

awesome job man!

 

[ImportWarrior]

whats wrong withthe old ones? anything obvious? is it bent?

 

[sonicnofadz]

I am glad that this solved the problem, however it seems *VERY* strange that replacing the axles made this vibration disapper. were your rims loose (loose lugnuts) when took the wheels off? If the CV joints were bad in the axles (which could have been the case) then this could explain why replacing the axles solved the problem. Were the old cv-boots torn? Notice anything odd about the old axles at all?

 

[myeclipseisnice]

ok well i had that vibration big time, thought my wheels where gonna fall off when i accelerated... well the wheels where tight, no prob there, i checked the ball joints and all that suspension crap, that was tight like my butt ... and then i knew i needed new axles cus every time i turned you can hear em clak clak clak you know what im talking about, and the cv boots where also torn only on my passenger side.... took my driver out first and it had so much play, left right, up down, it was ridiculous. boots weren't torn on the driver side but it was too much play and one master tech at my job said they were really done up... the passenger was torn and i replaced that one too. put everything back together and its all good now, no vibrations. and no the axles weren't bent.