I have a manual 2002 Z24. I installed these three parts along with every poly bushing you can put in our cars this past week. Now I'm having problems. My car shudders fairly violently while traveling down the road and turning right. Only bad when turning right. The faster I'm going, the worse it gets. I was thinking it was an axle not engaged into the tranny but I pulled them out of the tranny and put them back in and no change. I'm wondering if this could be attributed to the clutch or phantom grip. I jacked my car up and took the wheels off to visualize what was happening. In this situation, the whole car shakes with wheels pointed directly forward. The driver side axle shakes more violently than the passenger side (or so it appears with the passenger side being longer and more difficult to determine). The transmission shakes horribly during this situation.
This is aggravating because I took my time on the install to be sure I got everything right. All the right torque specs and everything. The only thing I was unsure of was the install of the axles, because they are a pain in the ass and difficult to tell when they're fully in.
Sorry about posting this in the performance forum, but the people that read this forum are most likely to have experience with these higher end parts. I'm also going to put this in the tranny and maintenance forums. Whatever it takes to get my car back on the road.
Thanks for any help you can give in advance.
Also, If you're going to leave a one sentence whitty remark that has nothing to do with my post, please pass. Nobody cares how much of a dick you can be.
how balenced are your tires? how often do you lock up your brakes? have you checked to see if theres any play in the wheel bearings? did you double check to make sure everything was torqued properly? did you hit all your grease fittings while you were there? start with these...
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Definitely not my wheels, but could possibly be brakes. I'm going to disconnect the axles and run it in first to make sure its not due to the lsd conversion. After that I'll start looking at the little stuff again, but I'm fairly sure it's a bit more complicated. However, I removed my brakes and then put them back on with no adjustment. We'll see what happens. Thanks for the suggestions though.
Not saying this is it but i have heard of people putting the clutch on the wrong side by accident. It could be the Phantom grip is not quite installed correctly
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Thanks for your insight guys, but the problem is exactly what my original guess was. One for the records: If your car shakes like a horribly misaligned wheel after tranny work, then it's probably a blown cv joint. It was infact an axle. These axles are supposed to be indestructable. We'll see if I can get them replaced for free with the lifetime warantee I have on them.
Thanks again.
