legacycentral bbs

I've been thinking lately that all these wierd noises and vibrations and stuff could possibly be related. Here's what i've noticed. The car pulls to the right when I let go of the wheel not very hard but enough for me to be able to let go and in about 400 ft be in the next lane over. From a stop it pulls to the left, not nearly as much as it does to the right but enough to be noticable. There is a vibration that starts at about 50-55 but smooths out at about 105. Some times when I change lanes (esp into the suicide lane right by my house) there is a loud groan when the right side goes over the lane markers. Everytime that I am on the gas after about 40mph there is a moan that starts to appear, almost like an oooooOOOOOO. I don't remember right now if it stops after a certain mph. There is also a vibration under decelleration, from whatever mph to about 10-15 mph. That's all i can think of right now. I'm sure it doesn't help that my suspension is utter crap. TIA

Wheel bearing and toe adjustment would be my guess. Either that or your toe has been bad for so long the tires have worn in a strange way causing the groan.

I'll second Ciper's remark.

I have to admit when I was opening up this post I thought I'd read something a lot more . . . stimulating.

that was the idea

Thanks cip, but how would i go about testing to see which bearing it is? it sounds like it's coming from the rear when it makes the noise but I can never really tell.

Have someone else drive and sit in the back seat right at the hump. You will be able to locate it alot easier.

Afterwards rotate your tires to rule them out.

i rotated the tires and it didn't really help fix the whoe problem. the vibration has moved up to starting at about 65 mph and now when braking the whole car shakes. feels like it starts from the rear now though. Might be the tires but now i've got biggere worries :\

my brakes do that too. they used to right after i got a brake job, then once they got warped, it stopped. then again, when we machined the rotors, it did that even worse, only under braking. it's mostly gone now, the alignment probably helped some!

oh I forgot to say that it doesn't pull to the right or left with the tires rotated.

gah

I looked under the car while doing the brakes today, the driversside half shaft has grime all over the inner(the one closest to the diff, unless that's outer) CV boot and all over the shield around it. The other shaft looks fine, and I'm starting to hear the groan coming from the left rear now. I'm fairly sure I've got groaning from both sides of the rear. Woooo boy this is going to be fun