Wheel Is Wobbly! Help!

[rtuo8795]

On the front passenger side the disc rotor broke. I went and replaced it. Upon installing it I thought I had everything right. I drove it and the wheel is wobbling all over. I checked it and I dont see what im doing wrong. I'm guessing it has something to do with the way the caliper is put on because when I turn the wheel it makes it alot diffrent sound than the other wheels. And it's hard to turn. Is there something or some special way to put calipers on? ANYONE ANY IDEAS???

 

[SuperHO]

stupid question time....


Did you torque down the lug nuts?


As is, thems the only things that'd make your wheel wobble like that. If all you did was pop off the caliper to change the rotor, nothing else should've come loose. Jack the car back up, put the car in gear (if it's an MTX), and torque the lugs down....cuz that's what it sounds like to me.

 

[rtuo8795]

No, I'm the one that feels like an idiot... lol I didn't use a torque wrench, but I did tighten them all down really good. Regardless, with the caliper on there, I'll turn the wheel and it makes a diffrent sound and its harder to turn than the other wheels. Something not right there. I'll have it jacked in the air, with the car in first gear and the other wheel spins fine; and the wobbly one having a hard time turning.

 

[CerberuS]

unbolt wheel , re-check every bolts of the caliper or brakes locations , maybe the brake pads fell....**** i donno.

 

[AREA 91]

I would suspect the lug nust first. Next idea is that the wheel bearing is toast. When this happened to me, the wheel would move over an inch in any direction!

 

[rtuo8795]

Some one told me it might be a CV joint???

 

[SuperHO]

CV joint wouldn't let the wheel move like that.....you gotta rememeber that between your strut rod, ball joint, tie rod and strut, your hub's pretty well planted.

 

[F-22 Raptor SHO]

1: lug nuts loose. Checked (I hope)
2: wrong type of rotor. Are you sure it the right one?
3: to get the rotor off, you had to remove the caliper bracket. Did you reinstall it correctly?
4: If the wheel bearing is bad, the wheel would wobble and be hard to turn.

I would start over and remove the caliper, bracket and rotor, check all the parts and reinstall.

 

[rtuo8795]

Sorry, not to sound like a douche bag but whats the caliper bracket?

 

[SuperHO]

that'd be the bracket that bolts to the back of the hub that the caliper bolts to.....

 

[91shogundohc]

Is the car a 91? If so, the kid at the autoparts store sold me the wrong rotor for my 5/91 car. there is a difference in the diameter of the the section that goes over the hub. After changing the front brakes, i had similar issues, I compared the rotor that was sold to me to another one for pre 5/91 cars, different diameter hubs. this fixed the wobble problem.


dp

 

[ManySHOs]

that'd be the bracket that bolts to the back of the hub that the caliper bolts to.....

Did the 89-93's have brackets up front? IIRC, the caliper mounted directly to the spindle?

Ian

 

[Racer X]

What year is the car?