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91300zx
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I was driving my z yesterday and i noticed a consistent vibration when i was coasting... now all of a sudden it has gone from that to a out of control gyration that shakes the whole assend of my car even at like 15 mph. does anyone know what the hell is going on?


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tg
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take your wheels off and have a look, it could be as simple as your lug nuts being loose ;0

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i can only hope so.... i am so scetched out tho.

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could be a number of things, wheels out of ballance, driveshaft out of ballance, bad u-joint, bad cv joint, carier bearing, could be a diff mount, pinion bearing or wheel bearing

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tg
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wheel out of balance - seems too sudden and severe for thatdriveshaft out of balance - possible, but usually midshaft bearing wear comes on slowly, unless the driveshaft took a hit or one of the midshaft bearing mounts brokediff mount - could definately be that toowheel bearing would grind and squeak and then sieze rather than shake violently

have you had a chance to get under it and have a look at it yet?

91300zx
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you guys arent gonna believe this but i went out to take off my right rear tire and it is all of a sudden missing TWO lugnuts...

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Zak427
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91300zx wrote:you guys arent gonna believe this but i went out to take off my right rear tire and it is all of a sudden missing TWO lugnuts...
well there you go. but weird....sabotage?

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tg
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somebody tried to jack your rims! (that or you lost one a while ago and the second one finally loosened up and came off).

Broken studs will do the same thing.

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yeah it was a snapped lugbolt...


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