QuestionQUESTION: I have a 92 cavalier with a nasty vibration in the front end when under torque and disapearing after certain speed.I cabt figure it out...cv joints are good and so is the clutch.Any info you can give me will be greatly appreciated thanks
ANSWER: Hi Kevin,
How are the ball joints and sway-bar links? What about if you pull out in second gear instead of first?
Send a follow-up and I'll try and help you more.
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QUESTION: The ball joints and swaybar links are good also and second gear doesn't change a thing.What happened was I was being dumb and competing in burnout comp. and got 4th gear rubber and since then I have had this problem at first I thought it was the clutch but looking at it it turns out it is fine and the wheel weights are still there so I am wondering if there are harmonic balancer weights and if 1 of them came off.
AnswerHi Kevin,
Well, if the weight of the balancer is off, you'd have a serious vibration all the time.
4th gear rubber, eh. With that additional knowledge, I would hazard a guess that maybe you bent the selector shaft inside of the trans. With it being slightly bent, it will cause a vibration especially in lower gear ranges because that's when the selector shaft spins faster.
Unlike the input an output shafts that spin at engine or vehicle speeds, the selector shaft spins fastest in first/reverse and as the gears are selected in the higher range, the input/output shafts start to spin faster than the selector which would cause more of a vibration at lower speeds or lower gear selections than at higher speeds.
Also possible the clutch plate spit out a spring or two causing it to go out-of-balance or maybe a finger or two were broken off of the pressure plate.
Lemme know how things work out.
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