Help again. =(

[oliverfehr]

Man Im getting fed up with this stupid car.

I was driving home last night when suddenly there was this loose sounding thumping noise coming from under the car and i could feel the floor shaking with it. It got worse and worse and now it happens when I take my foot of the accelerator and goes when I accelerate hard or brake. It also goes crunch crunch sounds like metal crunching against metal when I go slow and sounds like it's to do with the front left wheel (Changed the cv joint 4 months ago) I jacked it up and when you turn the wheel the sound is not there. So it's not the wheel. Please don't tell me it could be my gearbox.

[Lonx]

I'd check all of your engine mounts & bracing underneath the car is tight, and then maybe look at the swaybar bushes if you can't find any other probs (sounds like a hollow knock which you feel underneath your feet). Tough one to diagnose without seeing or hearing it in person.

[oliverfehr]

ha ha ha umm.. it's all fixed... but i'll never tell anyone what it was, i'll get so much shit. lol soooo embaressing.

[Lonx]

lol, don't say wheel nuts... i did that one 30m up my street after doing my rear disc brake conversion. Kinda shat myself until I bothered to jack the car up 20 minutes later and saw the wheel rock on the wheel studs. Stupid bloody lonx :trippa:

[oliverfehr]

Wheel nuts.


I feel your stupidity.

:hitwall:

[biga]

hahha i ahve done that!

[TTriX]

i sorta did that but it was worse-hehe
i had a hyundai-hehe- when i was 16...
i bought a set of aluminum mags for the pig...but the lug nuts i had were inserts and they were too long...so i put washers in and it took up the clearance, well it worked for a while then i was driving and heard this awful noise...
so my friend and i had access to a shop and went there...me being mechanically inclined figured out that the wheel lugs were loosening off so i found the airline and plugged in the impact gun...
my friend turned on the air(well which he thought was the air-hehe)...
and my poor car was half on the hoist(which went up as he flipped the valve which he thought was air) and the two of us stood with our backs to the car trying to figure out why the impact wasnt working till we heard a loud crash...
you guessed it...
my poor hyundai was on its roof...it had flipped over backwards by being picked up half like with the hoist...wrote the fucker off...
ya it sucked as i had to explain to my parents why i had trashed my second car-hehe
i paid for it so they figured it was my own stupidity...they were right...now i have no problem killing a vehicle if it's my own-hehe

hows that for stupid bone head moves-hehe?

[GTS20tExa]

Hey B you've been pretty quiet about that rear disk conversion, how'd it go for ya?

[Hairball]

I feel your pain. I did that with my last car... a ahem (celica).

[roshfe]

At one point I had an 86 Bronco II. After having it in to get a brake job done, I drove over to pick up my girl friend. As I was driving across town, I hear this sorta "whirrrrr - ching" sound every few blocks. I Pick Connie up and then head to where ever we were going and as we were driving down the street @ about 50km/h I just have time to see this 17" tire and aluminum sport rim go bouncing down the street ahead of us and say "hey - That's ours - we need that..." before the truck takes a nose dive and starts pulling towards the curb.

The mech who did the brake job didn't seat the front passenger wheel on the 4x4 locking hub. As I was driving to her place, the wheel seated itself and took all of the pressure off the back of the lugs. The "whirrrrr - ching" sound was the lugs coming the rest of the way off and then hitting the rims as they flew off. The rim was scrap and obviously much damage to everything that came in contact with the road at 50km/h!

Man was I mad! The Garage paid to fix the damage but still. :madshake:

[Lonx]

Rear disc conversion went perfect... previously had to be careful not to lock up the front brakes, especially if braking while turning (ass would try to catch up to the front) - but now the car just brakes so evenly and so much more comfortably its not funny. Still need to get the rear end balanced and aligned again. Rear shocks are stuffed too which isn't helping, but the brakes are better than ever (even with the stuffed shocks which is putting more weight towards the front of the car).