steering wheel shakes, many ?'s

[jjsacidy]

after i did my tranny swap my steering wheel shakes a bit. it gets pretty bad past 70mph, and sometimes when i brake itll go side to side slowly. when i pulled the axels from the tranny i just popped the tie rods off the hub and didnt unscrew them or adjust them in any other way.

also could i have warped or bent the rotor by sticking a jack under the rotor when the axle was out, because i needed something to hold it up while i bolted it to the strut?

could it also possibly be a bad ball joint on the lower control arm from the hub bending all kinds of ways?

it almost looks like my front pass. wheels top is out further than the bottom (positive camber, right?). i think that wheel bearing is also going since theres a noise from that area of the drivetrain, whould that cause play? i couldnt feel any by hand when i jacked it up.

or should i just get an alignment after i replace that hub,bearing,axle, and what ever else since that nuts rusted to all hell and right now i have a split-boot on the cv. haynes manual says to take it to a specialist? how much? y cant u just measure? what do they have/do? do they jack it up and take the wheels off and go by the mounting hub or just the tires? would i be able to tinker with it till i got it right or not?

thanks for reading all this crap and trying to help me

 

[jjsacidy]

ah its too cold to mess around looking at stuff. what could i have messed up? does it need to be realigned since i took off the tie rods? ive heard of people unscrewing them before after they mark it with white out. could it be the wheel bearing? pivot ball?