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Old 12-11-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Default Feels like rear axle shifts left to right when cornering.

Just recently I started feeling what seems to me like the rear end shifting left and right over the axle under hard cornering. It doesn't feel unsafe. It just feels like maybe some bushings are bad somewhere. The car has a full Eibach Pro-Kit if that has any bearing on the situation. I'm just looking for someone who has maybe had this problem or prior knowledge of such a problem to point me in the right direction. A panhard bar is in the works but I still need to know what the problem is so I can fix that as well. Thanks for any input.
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Just recently I started feeling what seems to me like the rear end shifting left and right over the axle under hard cornering. It doesn't feel unsafe. It just feels like maybe some bushings are bad somewhere. The car has a full Eibach Pro-Kit if that has any bearing on the situation. I'm just looking for someone who has maybe had this problem or prior knowledge of such a problem to point me in the right direction. A panhard bar is in the works but I still need to know what the problem is so I can fix that as well. Thanks for any input.
Hmmm not sure what that could be...did you replace the mounts for the shock absorbers and the springs? It's possible that the higher spring rate was too much stress on the stock mounts and then they might have fatigued which would associate to a bit too much flex...its happened. But I don't think that would be enough for you to notice side to side sway...that seems like you have something loose or a bracket that went bye bye.
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Just recently I started feeling what seems to me like the rear end shifting left and right over the axle under hard cornering. It doesn't feel unsafe. It just feels like maybe some bushings are bad somewhere. The car has a full Eibach Pro-Kit if that has any bearing on the situation. I'm just looking for someone who has maybe had this problem or prior knowledge of such a problem to point me in the right direction. A panhard bar is in the works but I still need to know what the problem is so I can fix that as well. Thanks for any input.
oh and look into a watts linkage: thats the upgrade from a pan hard bar^^

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Thanks for the tip on the Watts linkage. I wish I had the $1000 bucks for it but a panhard bar is only $100. You know, recession and all...
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Sounds like bad bushings but is your rear sway bar still hooked up?
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