suspension ?

[mhoffman1981]

I just put on new front quick struts, lower ball joints, right half shaft, left wheel bearing, strut rod bushings, swaybar end links, swaybar bushings, outer tie rods, and had it aligned. Now when i give it gas the front end rises real bad and it has a wobble in the steering wheel. I took it back to have it aligned again but that didnt help. anybody have any suggestions as to what could be causing this?

 

[jmpSHO]

Was it doing that before you did all that work?

 

[mhoffman1981]

nope. i had two bad ball joints, a bad wheel bearing, and a bad tone ring. i figured i'd replace everything else since it was already torn apart.

 

[Phoenix]

Please describe the WOBBLE in more details. Any sounds or clunks?

 

[mhoffman1981]

its more of a shake in the steering wheel and dash. when you hammer it the wheels seem pull into a bad positive camber and toe.

 

[sperold]

Get your alignment sheet and look it over yourself.
In my 95, the quickstruts tended to make the front ride high to begin with, so there is not a lot of room for the front to rise even higher on acceleration.
In my experience, shakes and rattles in the front end have more to do with tires. While the shop was man-handling your wheels, a stick on weight may have come off, and look to see if the wheels got put back on their correct side, on the off-chance your tires are directional. Look for bad or broken belts in the tires as well.

 

[mhoffman1981]

i did look at the alignment sheet i had them add more neg camber to it but that didnt help. all the wheels are balanced and i told them not to rotate them. cruising down the road its as smooth as can be but when you hammer it thats when it gets all squirrely.

 

[sperold]

Did your alignmetn include all 4 wheels.... sorry but I had to ask, and are your rear struts OK in a side to side sort of way.
The only other guesses I can make are motor / tranny mounts broke, subframe bushings are loose, or axle shafts, under load, are out of balance.
Other than that, I am really guessing outside my weight.

 

[rubydist]

1. My experience w/ quickstruts is that they have progressive rate springs that have a softer initial rate than the SHO stock springs - this will result in more initial travel and will allow the front to raise more than it did with the stock springs under acceleration.

2. The most common cause of steering wheel shake in these cars is due to warped brake rotors. The brake rotors are VERY sensitive to wheel torque, and if the wheels were reinstalled after all your recent work w/o being torqued properly with a torque wrench, there is a very good possibility that the front rotors are warped, which will result in the steering wheel shake that you describe.

2a. The second suspect for the shaking under load is a bad CV joint in the new half-shaft. If the outer CV joint is bad, it can cause the steering wheel to shake when higher torque loads are transmitted to the drive wheels.

 

[mhoffman1981]

yes I had all four wheels aligned and the rear struts are new also. I was also thinking I might have bad cv or the wrong one.

 

[cfamilyfix]

I have seen this quite a bit with Tauruses in general (3rd and 4th gen) but it would all be the same. Sounds like that axle is the culprit.

 

[mhoffman1981]

some of the movement turned out to be the crappy moog strut rod bushings. i replaced them with energy suspension bushings and fixed most of it. i think what little vibration i have left is the axle. i talked to advance auto and they said they would get me a replacement asap.