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Old Dec 7, 2008 | 04:25 PM
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Ok guys I posted a few weeks, and thought I had diagnosed the problem being a stuck brake caliper. However, after about a week the problem had resurfaced and in fact gotten worse. The problem was when I get up to about 65-70mph the back of the car feels like and sounds like it has a flat tire. Now it is happening even when driving slow say 20mph. Tonight on the way home I was coasting down a small hill getting ready to stop and shifted to neutral and the car was almost to a stop and it jerks almost like the wheels where shaped in the form of and egg shape. Hope that makes sense.

I pushed the clutch in when it happened when I was traveling faster however, that did not cause the problem to go away. I replaced both rear wheel bearings about 2-3 months ago. Could something have happened when I replaced the bearings. I inspected the lower ball joints and I do have a slit in one of the boots. I have totally confused about this problem. Also had all the wheels balanced last week. They all balanced fine. Please help????
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Old Dec 7, 2008 | 07:56 PM
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Just to elaborate the sound is like a thumping sound like thump, thump, thump, and sounds like a flat tire. The whole car shakes. And when I was slowing down, It felt like a train slowing down chug, chug, chug, Almost like the back tires were shaped like eggs like a high and low area? Need some help you guys... help a brother out.
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Old Dec 7, 2008 | 08:14 PM
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Check the lug nuts, make sure they are tighten to about 85lb/ft. I had a similar problem when a tire place didn't tighten my lugs enough.
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Old Dec 7, 2008 | 08:46 PM
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Are your tires low on tread?
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Old Dec 7, 2008 | 08:47 PM
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could be your bearings as well
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Old Dec 7, 2008 | 10:37 PM
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Could it be the axles\cv or diff?
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Old Dec 8, 2008 | 12:03 AM
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1st i would make sure the lugs are tightened to 80-85 lb/ft & in criss cross pattern.

which side is it coming from? left, right, both?

you said you have a cut on your cv boot, make sure you get that taken care of ASAP!
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Old Dec 8, 2008 | 05:33 AM
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The cut boot is the ball joint. I will check the lugs and make sure, but Im pretty sure they are tight. I just replaced the bearings about 2-3 months ago, and the tires are the correct pressure, and I have plenty of tire tread.
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Old Dec 8, 2008 | 09:16 AM
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does it change when you turn, accell, decel?
It sounds like it could be one of your axles.
you also may not have torqued the axle bolts correctly.
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Old Dec 24, 2008 | 11:14 AM
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Ok, low and behold I have found the problem to my car shakes. The culprit was my front brake caliper piston had seized up on me. I could not budge the piston to save my life. So i replaced with a refurb one for $60 bucks, and as good as new. I could have swore the problem was from the rear. And it never had the symptom of pulling to that affected side strange huh. Oh well... at least its fixed. Thanks for the help guys.
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