Suspension Brakes 1st Gen Most liked posts in thread: Installing new camber plates resulted in a new problem!!!

Yeah I only had a limited amount of time to work with unfortunately so I didn't have to time to take the struts out. And I believe I put the camber plates in right. They didn't have a left or right marking on them so I matched them up to the one that looked the same. Maybe I could have possibly put them in on the wrong sides, but if I did, would that cause this problem? I have a sheet from the alignment. I have a picture of it. Sorry about the quality, I had to take a bunch of pictures and merge them together so you can read the numbers. I don't have access to a scanner right now.

 

and i just noticed the paper says the right rear toe adjustment was maxed out. i don't know why that would be like that. never had any issues with the rear end before and my car's never been in an accident. never hit any curbs or anything either.i won't even get a chance to look at my car until saturday since i'm working almost 70 hours this week.

 

i'm starting to wondering if the wheel bearing might be shot and the new camber and alignment is showing it now. i do have 114k miles on it and i don't know if they've ever been replaced. i bought the car used with 80k miles on it. i'm just wondering what would be the way to check everything without pulling everything apart, if it's possible. i just don't have time to take everything apart right now unfortunately. and if there's something wrong that i need to replace i'd like to order it so it gets here by friday so i don't have to wait another week to install it.

 

i have 3 videos of it i just uploaded. there is a lot of distortion but you can here the sound of what i'm hearing in the background bass. it's kinda like a "woah-woah-woah-woah" sound. you'll see a few times i hold in the clutch and you can hear it better then. the first video you caan hear it all right. the second video about 3:45 into it you can hear it pretty well. and the 3rd video i'm going slower and you can hear it too. you'll notice it isn't quite as fast as the other 2 videos. and at the end of the 3rd video i'm taking an exit off the highway and you'll hear stuff if my car rattling a lot, so that's not the sound of what is going on, lol. you'll see me correcting the steering wheel a lot. i was on a straight section of highway where i wouldn't need to be correcting the wheel at all. again, there's a lot of distortion and if you listen on a laptop, you'll have to listen VERY carefully. if you have a speaker system, you should be able to here in the back ground bass. it'll be the only consistent sound in the background that you can pick out of the distortion. hopefully this will help out. i'll try to get another video of the steering problem when i cut the wheel and straighten it out.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42m0piOVfPM"]Video 1[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrhQCVK-Pcg"]Video 2[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q6rhCRqhk0"]Video 3[/ame]

 

as far at the measurements go, they were after the install. my buddy's shop doesn't have an alignment machine. he just has a lift so he let me use it on friday night, i kept him late there by doing so too. so i had to take it to a shop that had one and they spent over an hour working on it so i'm assuming they had some trouble doing it all.

 

sorry about them being listed as private. i must have checked the wrong setting on the video upload. i just changed them so they should work now without a problem.

 

the sound is coming from the front. as for what side i'm hesitant to say because it's tough to tell when you're not sitting in the middle of the car. it definitely sounds like it's coming from the front of the car though.

 

yeah the problem is i work 70+ hours a week normally and only have saturdays to really do anything. and that time is usually spent with my girlfriend and my friends so it's tough to juggle this stuff. and not having a (working) backup car really doesn't help much. i can't just drop it off and let someone work on it for me. nor do i really have that much to spend either. car payments and other bills really end up kicking you when you're down

 

so new developments on the problem. i managed to get a chance to look at the struts before leaving for work this morning and notice the drivers side was leaning in more than the passenger side. i took some pics of them but i don't know how well you can see it. i'll have to try and get a ruler and take an angled shot of it. here they are though.

driver's side strut:


passenger side strut:

 

i was expecting that. it's tough to see in the pic but the drivers side seemed to be leaning inward a lot more than the passenger side and the car was parked flat. i'll have to take some more pics later with a ruler when i get a chance