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Old Dec 6, 2004 | 04:49 PM
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I changed (you're right, once again, Jim) the entire control arm since an upper ball joint can not be had.

The crazy insane harsh vibration has now just changed to a vibration and before the steering wheel would shake in my hands but now it does not. There is something else wrong, perhaps the lower ball joint that has been over-looked but will soon will be looked at more closely.

The tire might even be bad, I'm gonna put the spare on and see what happens. Could a bad rotor do this? I checked the tie rod end and wheel bearing and there was no play but the lower ball joint needs to be looked over again.

What is funny is that if I feather foot the gas there is no vibration and if I apply the brakes softly and gradually, no vibration. However, if I accelerate hard the vibration is very bad and the same with harsh braking, a bad vibration.

The upper ball joint fixed the (shake) problem at least 50% but now I have to figure out what else is going on under that RF fender.
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