driving with any of the mounts out stresses the axles pretty heavily. when the front mount went on mine, it was maybe two days of poosyfooting it to work before the axle gave on my way home.
driving with any of the mounts out stresses the axles pretty heavily. when the front mount went on mine, it was maybe two days of poosyfooting it to work before the axle gave on my way home.
Lots of good input, My personal 'net diag' opine is an mount /axle alignment issue...
Having said that, ck the 'k' frame to body integrity just for giggles.
I jacked up each front wheel, one side at a time, trying to keep the suspension at ride height by careful jack placement, and each side seems to have a half inch or more of free play in the axles, so I don't think it's bottoming out.
Going to have to try changing the left side axle.
Does the transmission side mount go bad often? It's hard to see in there and see what the rubber looks like.
I haven't had a trans mount go yet - they are a little more isolated from movement then the passenger mount. if you didn't move the engine when you did the clutch, centering should be close enough (besides which it is doubtful you wouldn't have made that long of a trip before the problem started, if it were placement related). I'd check the hubs next. if it is a high mileage car, or ever sat for a long period of time, and they are original - they could be suspect. I've had bad hubs make the front end shudder so much it felt like it would explode, but not all the time.
Ive had bad wheel bearings get scary bad too, but the thing about those is that they always give you other clues.. like nasty noises when you put a load on them.
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worth a check, it is obviously somewhere in the front end. I've had hubs go on two different vehicles, and neither made any noise (beyond the resonance from the shudder). from my experience elsewhere, every bearing failure is different.
Check your strut mounts as well.. I had this on a caravan with a bad upper mount on the driver's side. shaking at greater then 60 mph on a trip from CA to LA.
I fixed it. Changing the left side axle solved the problem.
But what went bad? Needle bearings. In the left axle, at the transmission end, where the tripod on the axle is. There are 3 rollers that are what touch the transmission side of the CV joint cup. One of those 3 had lost all its needle bearings, so I had a metal ring with a good 1/8" plus of free play to the center stem of its tripod leg. The other 2 of those roller ring things were in good condition. I saw no needle bearings laying around in the cv joint, so I'm guessing they somehow disintegerated, maybe one at a time, then more, then even more.
Anyway, it is fixed now and runs great again, and nice and smooth.
Seeing what the problem was, I'm amazed that IT was enough to shake the front of the car all over the place, and HARD, too.
Glad you got it fixed. Inner CV joints can cause some of the worst, scariest vibrations of any part on the car.
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Glad you got it sorted! I was going to suggest the intermediate axle mount. Sometimes those loosen up and cause the axle to flop around some.