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What Are the Symptoms of Crank walk?

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DSM GREENHORN

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Mar 23, 2005
Bellingham, Washington
My car was running fine, and then all of a sudden it starts shuddering really bad when I take off from a start. It feels like I'm letting the clutch out too fast, but that's not it. It still does it when I ride the clutch. Right before this happened, I accidently turned my boost up to 16psi on my b16g on a stock motor w/ stock injectors, and stock fuel pump. I do have an S-AFC, but it's @ 0's on all the throttle settingd (high and low). When I had the boost up that high, it was making a sound that sounded like paper ripping when I really got on it. I only had the boost like this for about 5 mile, and then turned it back down to 10. I know it take a lot of boost to get crank walk, but could it have messed up my crankshaft just a little. It also vibrates a bit under heavy acceleration. Does anyone have any ideas on what this could be? Is it my clutch? I have a centerforce that's pretty new, but I know things can go wrong at any time. Please help me understand what I need to do to fix this. Oh yeah, one more thing, I just changed out some vaccuum lines right before I took off, would this have anything to do w/ it? Thank-you to anyone who finds it in their hearts to answer my probably stupid questions.
 
probably not crank walk. Overboosting is not going to mess up your crank. If you replaced vacuum lines recently that would be the first place I would look. Other than that I think its pretty hard to diagnose with the info you provided.
 
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