Loose Rear End

themoose06 · Jul 30, 2016

Hey guys after doing the rear swap I noticed the rear feels kinda loose when I give it gas. When I accelerate the car pulls towards the right a bit, and then shift back straight when I ease off. Haven't had an alignment in a while, but Cant think Of why it would feel so different after the swap?

JUSTA3V · Jul 30, 2016

Check your lower control arm bolts and bushings.

themoose06 · Jul 30, 2016

Bushings are definitely A+, theyre stock but only have 10k miles on em. Definitely will check the lca bolts, that was my stepdads guess.

themoose06 · Jul 31, 2016

JUSTA3V said:
Check your lower control arm bolts and bushings.

Wow yup, you were spot on. Haven't gone for a drive yet but that passenger side control arm was unnervingly not torqued. I went ahead and torqued that down and the driver side a bit more for good luck

JUSTA3V · Jul 31, 2016

Hope that solves it

You described the exact issue I was having when my LCA bushings were worn out.

themoose06 · Jul 31, 2016

Kinda a scary feeling too. Whole rear just feels uncontrollable. I'll see how it is today. I swapped out my 114k mile LCA's for a set of stock 05 gt's with 10k, so I knew those bushings were good. I'll let you kmow if that takes care of it

TexasBlownV8 · Aug 1, 2016

Did you put blue loctite on the bolt threads where it screws into the locking nut? If not, I would check them again after a few days or a week or so and make sure they're still torqued to spec 129 ft-lbs.

themoose06 · Aug 1, 2016

No loctite, didnt have any on hand and there wasn't an issue after replacing them a month or so ago, i'll check again tomorrow or so. If they're coming loose then i'll pickup some loctite

TexasBlownV8 · Aug 2, 2016

hope you used some on the driveshaft bolts at least !?
(blue is adequate)

themoose06 · Aug 3, 2016

TexasBlownV8 said:
hope you used some on the driveshaft bolts at least !?
(blue is adequate)

I did! I used blue. Knew I couldn't take any chances with that.

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