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Old 06-21-10, 07:23 PM
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Car shakes/shutters left and on decel

When I am driving at any speed and I take a curve in the highway going left, the car shakes pretty bad. Any ideas? Tie rod? Struts? Bad wheel bearing?
It also shutters when decelerating from highway speed when I let off the gas but when I give it a bit of throttle, the shuttering goes away.
I'm using banzai racing motor mounts, would thar explain the low-ish rpm decel shaking?
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How are you using our motor mounts with the 13b-rew?

Motor mounts will not cause any shaking while turning. You have a problem with your steering components. I would check the lower ball joints.
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Have those motive fab adapters to get the REW in the FC.

I'm not blaming the mounts for the shaking while turning, but I know (or read) that some stiffer mounts cause vibration at lower RPM.

I shall check my lower ball joints though, thanks
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more important check passenger front wheel bearing , very common , also try breaking heavily it should pull to the left pretty hard.
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Will do. So if the passenger side wheel bearing is bad, then it will pull to the left while braking/show symptoms while curving left (not turning)?
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couple things it could do , it can hum either a little to a lot , cv joints and bearings can pull to the opposite side of the vehicle under hard braking(when driving straight just cruising no problems ) but cvs on these cars are the rear so kinda not an issue
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Doesnt pull when braking that I noticed
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Hard braking ? Try to do a complete stop from 35-40 without holding the wheel
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Originally Posted by Banzai-Racing
How are you using our motor mounts with the 13b-rew?

Motor mounts will not cause any shaking while turning. You have a problem with your steering components. I would check the lower ball joints.

I'm sorry, why was that not checked yet?
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