Guess what dudes.
My tires were *shot* from the previous owner's lack of maintenance, obviously the shocks were blown for a really long time! That's what was causing the funny noise; epic cupping. Now i have to get new tires because these ones are too far gone.
It was the axle. I asked napa for a re-manufactured axle, gave them my originals, and what did i get... a new GCK axle. fail!
So i got a replacement set of axles from Napa the other day. They were both remans. Passenger side had a balance shaft on it, driver's side didn't. This was a good thing because the original set i got had a no balance shaft on the passenger side and a balance shaft on the driver's side.
So we install the passenger side and whaddya know. Vibration is 100% gone.
I am happy to be done with axle roulette. All in all for what i paid, i could have got two raxles installed. Sigh. Oh well!
So what did we learn? first off, parts store axles suck. Second off, axles with balance shafts seem to be a good thing.... don't install an axle that doesn't have one. Ones without are cursed
My tires were *shot* from the previous owner's lack of maintenance, obviously the shocks were blown for a really long time! That's what was causing the funny noise; epic cupping. Now i have to get new tires because these ones are too far gone.
It was the axle. I asked napa for a re-manufactured axle, gave them my originals, and what did i get... a new GCK axle. fail!
So i got a replacement set of axles from Napa the other day. They were both remans. Passenger side had a balance shaft on it, driver's side didn't. This was a good thing because the original set i got had a no balance shaft on the passenger side and a balance shaft on the driver's side.
So we install the passenger side and whaddya know. Vibration is 100% gone.
I am happy to be done with axle roulette. All in all for what i paid, i could have got two raxles installed. Sigh. Oh well!
So what did we learn? first off, parts store axles suck. Second off, axles with balance shafts seem to be a good thing.... don't install an axle that doesn't have one. Ones without are cursed