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Old 01-19-04, 02:38 PM
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Crazy rear toe accompanied by clunk!

Alright well, my rear and instability problem has been narrowed down considerably, with help from the icy roads!!
I replaced shocks and struts, AND had an alignment done.
I now know that the place I got the alignment done at has NO creditbility with me at all, and I doubt they knew how to read the instruction on the alignment bed. ANyways, that was about a year ago.

Recently, I've been developing a clunk in the rear supension,. seemingly right in the center of the axle, whenever I go over bumps.
This has been accompanied by my rear and instability getting worse and worse.
Now it randomly pulls to one side or the other, and the rear tires are wearing like nutso.
Whenever I go over bumps, the back of the car would just shake all over- but the tires would stay planted to the road- NOT SHOCK RELATED.

Anyways, I found, from driving around in the slush recently, that if my rear LEFT tire was on ice and the right was on pavement, the back of the car would swing WILDLY to the left (front of the car to the right), and if my RIGHT rear tire hit ice and my left was on pavement, the back of the car would swing wildly to the right (fornt of the car pointing left)

So.. it would seem that I has so much rear toe that the wheels are fighting each other, and when traction is compromised one one side ebcause of a bump or anything, the extreme toe on the other side would drive the back of the car over.

I have yet to brave the blizzard to check.. I'm probably just going to bring it to a reputable alignment shop with a copy of the FSM's outilne for adjusting the toe cam
bolt.

I'm not blindly looking for answers, since i havn't even checked under the car yet (I HATE WHEN PEOPLE POST HERE AND DO THAT!!!)
Just any input as to what would cause this degrading accompanied by the clunk.
The single main camber link going from the subframe to the chassis?? Any ideas? Thanks!
At least I'm finally glad to have a pinpoint as to what the problem is- not just the symptoms...
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