Included are the photos I have of the front drive axels (marked with yellow). Is this a salvaged part???

I also included a shot or the damage to the wheel well in the front and to the upper control arm. It has progressed since that photo was taken.

Also included is a shot of the pinch welds on the rear end of the car. I was questioning whether or not the frame was damaged prior. by the looks of the photos, I thought forsure the frame was repaired....

Any opinions???

Thanx,
Heather

 

Axles look fine

 

Agreed. All those marks on the axel ore original. nothink salvaged about them.

The uper control arms will hit the body if you lower it enough and the suspension travels far enough. Remeber that the lowered shocsk don't have the factory bumpstop hieght. So the only thing to stop it is the body.


There is one other pic. I believe its the bumber support. Thats just normal Rust.

 

if you want to know if it has been wrecked you need to take it to an alignment shop and have them take a look at the camber and caster. we know that the camber is going to be neg. because its lowered. if the caster and camber are way different from side to side then you are going to have drivability problems (pulling or drifting to one side or another.) whenever i align a car if possible i dont alow anything more than .5 degrees difference from side to side with camber and caster. check the alignment and post what the specs are and i can hopefully give you an idea of what you need to do to fix it.

 

some info on shops here-- at my shop we will work on cars that are lowered or altered, but you cant really gaurntee the work because they arent o.e. calibrated parts. so depending on the shop, they may have worked on one before and it came back and bit them in the ass, so they will never work on one again

 

I will tell u this about my allignment... (kinda odd) The place I purchased my rims from gave me a print out of all the specs. I saved them (there is a one year difference).

The older print out (2005)has 2 pages (and the times are 10 minutes apart). I think they1st alligned it and then made some adjustments or something 10 minutes later. However, the last of those 2 print outs, compared to the print out from the year after(2006), has many different numbers.

The "Rear Axle":
WHEEL-BASE DIFFERENCE (2005) was left at a final value of +22"3/32
WHEEL-BASE DIFFERENCE (2006) was left at a final value of -0"7/32

Would this signify anything? Also, in 2005, two weeks b4 this allignment was done, I switched from 18's to 17's (the 18s were way bent).

Other numbers:
FRONT AXLE: 2005 (start) 2005 (final) 2006 (start) 2006 (final)
total toe.........+0 degree,38' +0,0' +1deg16' +1 deg, 17'

camber (2005)....start+0,25'LH)(+0,14'RH); Final+0,26'LH)(+0,15'RH)
camber (2006).....start-0,38'LH)(-0,33'RH); Final-0,39'LH)(-0,40'RH)

caster (2005)....StartLH+3,30') (RH+3,55') FinalLH+3deg,29')(RH+3,29')
caster (2006)....startLH+3,04') (RH+3,40') FinalLH+3,04')(RH+3,40')

Do u notice anything strang here? Thanks!!!

 

Nothing that throws a red flag. Camber is negative obveiously. But its not that bad since the car is lowered. Front caster is even on both sides which is good. The right rear caster is off 1/2 degree compared to the passenger side but nothing i would be worried about. If the car had suspension/frame damage the numbers would be all over the place.

 

Well, I'm glad to hear that... however, the car has been sitting all winter and I have no clue what the allignment is at now. I'll take her in somewhere soon. Sure enough, it was getting all nice out and then we just got 6inches of snow today! I was getting all excited to take her out of storage!

One question... what about the rear axel Wheel Base numbers? They changed an awful bit btwn one year.

And I also noticed something on all my Valvoline oil change reciepts... It started around 56 K (I have 86K right now). Every reciept after this point has in the "comments" section, "FRAME OIL DRIPPAGE" or "POSSIBLE FRAME OIL DRIPPAGE". What would this be implying? And sure enough, she just started leaking oil I noticed b4 I put her in the garage for the winter.

She's due for a timing belt and I think she is leaking near the cam or cam seal (?) I dunno for sure. I am attaching some pics I just recently took when I was in the garage. I was looking under my hood pretty intensly when the brace on the bottom of my K&N intake caught my eye... Thick metal, broke right in half. It no longer is based to avoid it bumping around. I really am starting to think things are shifting under my hood... Take a look

Thanks,

Heather

email: slhe0202@stcloudstate.edu