View Poll Results: Are you using Axel spacers (lowered car of course)
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#21
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I had no issues when I had just Eibach springs. The got the koni yellows on lower perch and got vibrations pretty quickly. Swapped the axle buckets and been good so far. No spacers here.
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Is there a link for these spacers?? I am dropped on Skunk 2 (reversed springs) and right on the way home got the vibration on hard acceleration from 3000-4500 rpms. I would like these said spacers to install over the winter!
#26
i am a 01, 140,000kms and the car is bone stock, and I have the vibrations.
Im going to do the cup swap from left to right, and wait for those to pit, then when i get the vibrations again, Ill get the spaces
Im going to do the cup swap from left to right, and wait for those to pit, then when i get the vibrations again, Ill get the spaces
#28
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Here is what I know to be true. Any model year can have an issue with the vibrations. Ap1 vs. Ap2 dosent matter. Lets take look back in time... The cv cups on a brand new car have no wear what so ever. As you drive the spider moves across the the channels in the cv cup. Eventually creating a wear spot. EVEN AT STOCK HEIGHT. When you lower your car You change the angle of the half shaft which also moves the spider to a differnt location in the cv cup. Now here is where the vibrations could start. If you have the vibrations Your spider joint is moving between the clean area where it sits lowered and the wear spot that was created at stock height. Depending on how much wear your cv cups have, you may or may not have vibrations. The higher your mileage the deeper your wear spot can be(depending on driving habits). This is why people noticed more severe vibrations with higher mileage. Think about it this way. If you lowered your car from day one the only wear spot would be at the lowered height, You wouldnt have vibrations. All the spacers do is move the spider to a new clean area of the cv cup. Which also happens to be far enough away from wear spot caused under normal conditions.
#29
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Originally Posted by Armend17,Oct 3 2010, 01:34 AM
I'm lowered on skunk2 springs, the shaking started right away, i got the axles swapped, problem went away, i might get spacers for flush look only.
#30
I am lowered on coilovers (2" drop) And with stock axles, I had no problem. Then I recently snapped a spindle nut causing me to have to replace the passenger axle. Once installed, the vibrations began(42-49 mph) under acceleration only. Still haven't got around to putting spacers on but I hope this will cure it because its annoying.