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
It's only on the longer axle right? Mine doesn't have one. Just cut it off.
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.
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...
pretty sure my car doesnt have the weight on the axle.
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