Jetta a2 Axle (thebalanced weight on it)

[monst]

On the axle there is a round circular rather
heavy weighted collar. It is attached by
a rubber busing.....
 To me it is like a vibration damper.......
Well, mine the rubber dry rotted and it
is not attached. It now wants to go to
the wheel when the axle rotates......
  I used some urethane and put it back
where it is supposed to be. Unfortunately,
now there is a vibration(more like a growl)
and certain speeds.....
   I am ready to cut this thing off the
axle.................
   It made less noise when it was unattached
and damaging the outer boot on the axle......

 I am sure with these ol' cars others have
seen this happen.............
 What did you's do to the vibration damper....

   I vote cut it off.......

Monst

[rallydiesel]

It's only on the longer axle right? Mine doesn't have one. Just cut it off.

[burn_your_money]

Mine did the same thing except it got caught between the bottom of the strut and the control arm and was making some awful pounding noises.

I forget if I cut it off or replaced the axle.

[monst]

Cool!
Yeah, mine ended up under the strut too.
I put new strut bushing/bearings in
moved it out then urethaned it in place....
(not good enough- noticing from the growl)
I get at different speeds.
I'll hack it out.

I don't have a cutting torch so
I am gonn try to sawzal it out...
It is rather thick and I will have
to cut it twice..........
 Otherwise, I'll get someone to cut it
out...

[Rabbit on Roids]

pretty sure my car doesnt have the weight on the axle.

[monst]

So just to close this out with a conclusion.....
   As for the growling noise.... When I
(3m) window urethaned the the counter weight
back on the shaft, I also upgraded to  14"
rims.... The tires in the front were creating
the growl noise.... I noticed this when I went
and got some decent tires at the J yard... and
had them installed... the growl went away......
   SO it looks like the fix with the window urethane
worked well for the counter weight on the passenger side axle....
  When I did the rig job, because the rubber on the
weight dry rotted and caused the metal sleeve to
end up under the passenger side strut. I returned
it back to its original location(as best I could).
And before I gooped it up with the urethane I
spun the wheel by hand and just eyed it up.....
to see it was spinning fairly true............
    This worked pretty good.......
very strong..... I got the idea from a post
where someone had used urethane to restore
shot tranny mounts.....
Then End...

   Monst