Rear Wheel wobbling

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lomax07

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I was driving on the highway this guy pulls up 2 me and says my rear wheel is wobbling. I haven't looked at it yet but if so what components should i be looking for..... Last i remember is hitting a curb
 
Maybe you should be out looking at it and not having us guess here? Or you could leave it for a few days and see what falls off...
 
Soon as I get off I'm gonna get to it. I figured somebody might have experienced this or something similar. I didn't see anything in the search about it besides bad wheel bearings
 
If you "hit a curb", I'm guessing you probably bent the rim. Depends on how hard you hit it. I hit a curb once in my '87 Mustang and a week later, my entire right side wheel/brake drum/axle shaft assembly passes me going down the road. That was an interesting experience. Lickily, I had a 1988 T-Bird Turbo Coupe rear end at home I could swap in. Anyway, I'm thinking bent rim. Possibly loose lug nuts. Don't know. Did you feel any vibrations?
 
thaywood said:
I hit a curb once in my '87 Mustang and a week later, my entire right side wheel/brake drum/axle shaft assembly passes me going down the road. That was an interesting experience. Lickily, I had a 1988 T-Bird Turbo Coupe rear end at home I could swap in.
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Seriously??? Really???? :shifty:
 
Lug nuts :D
I had 4 on there and somehow only 2 were snugged just enough 2 hold on other 2 were loose as hell Im glad that wheel didnt come off in Friday's traffic on I95 :eek:
 
You may want to check the hub for runout or you might be replacing them again soon, or the tire, or the brakes, or other suspension parts...
 
SVO said:
Seriously??? Really???? :shifty:
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Seriously. It actually happened. Apparently, when I hit that curb it broke, or at least weakened the retainer clip inside the diff that holds the axle shaft in. When it finally worked its way out, the shaft was still attached to the brake drum and wheel. It was in 1999 if I'm not mistaken. The good thing was that I was on my way to work and driving through town at about 35mph. The rear end dropped to the ground and the tire/wheel/axle shaft went by end-over-end. It rolled across the road and ended up in somebody's front yard. I'm really glad there wasn't any oncoming traffic. That could have been nasty.
 
That comment was pertaining to using the Turbo Coupe parts to fix your GT.
 
SVO said:
That comment was pertaining to using the Turbo Coupe parts to fix your GT.
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It wasn't a GT. It was a 1987 2.3L hatchback. And the '88 TC parts bolted right in. The only problem I had was with the rear end. The TC rear was about an inch or so wider than the Mustang's so I had a little tire rub when I hit a bump (with TC 16"x7" snowflakes and P245/50HR16 tires). But the attachment points for the control arms were in exactly the same place on both. I also had to modify the brake lines in the rear because they didn't attach in the same place on the TC axle that they did on the original Mustang axle. Front and rear sway bars from the TC were direct bolt-in as well. As for the schocks and struts, direct bolt in. I just had to wire up the electronic solonoids to a switch on the dash so I could switch them from soft to firm and back. The T-Bird and Mustang were pretty much identical underneath. Both were Fox bodies and they shared quite a few chassis and suspension parts.
 
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