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Axle problems, Please Help.

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mattstansbury

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month or so ago, noticed VERY bad vibration around 40mph...thought wtf? was like a wheel falling off, checked lugs, all tight. jacked car up. driver side halfshaft wobble. car had about 125k miles, figured it just went bad..replaced..week later, vibration back.. Kinda got pissed..went back to napa and got new axle replaced under warranty...went bad again. Flipped a ***** and replaced motor mount, trans mount, new dogbones and flipped the motor mounts on the radiator crossmember(correct word for it?)..THEN, changed both axles, passenger side and driverside...And now, there is a slight vibration around 60-70mph+ but, more noticable when on the gas, but is also there when coasting, so i do beleive it may be a tire issue, alignment etc..but the thing that has me VERY pissed..is that same Oh****mother****er "click" is back when I change from D>R...Hardly ever does it from R>D and does it when D>N(wait for a few seconds)>R...
Just incase you all are a bit confused
D: Drive
R: Reverse
N: Neutral
Also to note. Which is half the reason why Im resorting to this forum...NEW moog tierod, and wheelbearing on driverside. and new wheelbearing on passenger side, I'm completely stumped..Everywhere I go everyone says the same thing, which was my first guess, the axles, But obviously it's not.....Any help appreciated
 


Got newish struts from a junkyard for around $150..and compared them with my old coilovers and they looked the same, old ones had about half inch sag...so The struts have around 75k miles on them? everything seems good condition...the strut mount wouldn't make the click though..I failed to mention, its just now starting, but it will get VERY loud. like the cv is about to come apart..after it gets bad in say about a week, if you downshift to first or second..it will be audible if you let off the gas and the weight of the car transfers up front...even a very gentle shift will make the pop..Im just hoping a slight click is normal and im just paranoid as hell because of the problems i've been having...idk what else to do or what to go for next... the motor moves absolutely NONE by hand..and I doubt it moves that much while in gear..what else would make a car eat axles?
 
I had a vibration that would get worse when accelerating from 60-65+ going up his and it would stop when I was going down hills. I noticed that one of my wheel weights had been thrown. I took it to the tire shop and asked them to check the balance and see if they were off but apparently they were fine. They said that the front tires were looking pretty worn down and said that was likely the reason. They rotated them for me and I have not experienced any vibrations anymore. As for eating of the axles Ive heard that lowering a car can be harder on them so if you're lower that could be a potential reason.
 
Car is 100% stock..I dont know much about tranmissions..but bad output shaft bearing maybe?? idk guys. I've put a lot of money into to this car lately. half tempted to get rid of it right now
 
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