Cascade Crew

91camaro_rs · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:37 am Post subject: vibrations

today i noticed my car started vibrating a lot i can feel it in the steering wheel, it wasnt like this yesterday, and at idle at a stop if i turn the wheel it vibrates a lot not only can i feel it in the wheel but the whole car shakes, i have power steering fluid, my alignment is way off, and my tires are bald, but why would it start all of the sudden? bad PS pump maybe?

91RSVert · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:48 am Post subject:

If your tires are bald, they could have started seperating and/or creating air bubbles.

You could have also had a weight fall off.

BluFbdy · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:18 pm Post subject: Re: vibrations

QwkTrip · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: vibrations

In order to shake something needs to be moving. The way I figure it there is only one thing moving when you're at a stop that is part of the steering system. Wink

91RSVert · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:25 pm Post subject:

Ops, didnt notice that that phrase in it. Once again, bit by responding first thing in the morning.

Could it be the crack in the frame ordeal that the wonderbar is suppose to fix?

BluFbdy · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:35 pm Post subject:

Oh yeah I forgot a T rex took a bite out of his frame.... you think the welds snapped?

91camaro_rs · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:07 pm Post subject:

what welds??

and i do have a wonderbar

BluFbdy · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 6:16 pm Post subject:

The guy who did your sfc's did a patch job on your frame didn't he?

jchaussee · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2010 Posts: 1318 Location: renton

Perhaps a bad u joint?

Al Hasse · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 7:51 pm Post subject:

U-joint is stationary at idle...

jchaussee · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2010 Posts: 1318 Location: renton

My bad. I kindof skimmed it. I would assume a bad mount such as motor or something. Hard to imagine whole car shaking with a bad pump.

91camaro_rs · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:47 pm Post subject:

i get new tires on monday, so im gonna have em mounted balenced and an alignment we'll see what happens then and go from there

QwkTrip · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:29 pm Post subject:

If they find a family of raccoons living inside your old tires that would explain why the tires vibrate just standing still on the ground. If not, then you probably need to keep searching for the problem.

flea · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 7:36 pm Post subject:

Tell the tire shop to be careful. Dizzy raccoons tend to exhibit a negative attitude.

IROCDave · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 5:20 pm Post subject:

Do you have headers? If yes, how close are they to the steering shaft?

91camaro_rs · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:56 pm Post subject:

i do have headers and im not sure i can go measure

aaron_sK · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:43 pm Post subject:

This entire topic is one gigantic facepalm.

Luke posts up that he is leaking PS fluid, then post that the engine bogs when the PS pump is loaded (i.e. wheel turned at a stop) at get the following suggestions:

Bald tires
Cracked frame
U-joint
Motor mount
Family of racoons
Headers

These are all terrible suggestions brought on by people who cannot add one and two together. So I will help them do so.

PS pump is lubricated and cooled by it's own fluid
It had less than the proper amount of fluid
It died
Now it doesn't work

This is not rocket science, it is shade tree mechanics. I am a lousy drunken Polack carpenter and I can see through it. Come on!

QwkTrip · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:57 pm Post subject:

You're going to be embarrassed when they find raccoons.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 7:57 pm Post subject:

Damnit Aaron. Come down to Benders in Renton and watch my band and be drunken with music.

10706 SE Carr Rd Renton, WA 98055-5826
No cover. We play at 930.

You can point out the obvious there too. ;0)

jchaussee · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2010 Posts: 1318 Location: renton

Where did he post that?