JFoster

Ok, so I snapped an axle in my '95 LSt. Bought new axles (both sides, from Autozone) and installed them. Now the car shakes during acceleration.

Its fine while cruising but applying more throttle instantly makes the ride rougher (like the road switches to gravel) and the longer I accelerate the worse it gets. I held out up till ~6psi and it was so bad I thought it was gonna shake the doors off.

Car has new Jim Fab motor mounts, Omnipower coil overs and camber kit professionally aligned by sears, its pretty low about 1 finger gap or less ... but wasn't a problem before. New tires, mounted and balanced.

This just started after I replaced the axles but I have changed axles before, I'm quite capable, never had problems before. They look like there in all the way. Brought it back home and put it up on jack stands. Nothing loose or out of place. Axles still look new, no rubbing issues, not hot to the touch, can spin either wheel easily by hand on stands ....

Loserkidwac

Cheap axles aren't balanced like factory axles, get better quality balanced axles or go toa shop that balances them, place do drive shafts for rear wheel drive cars, sure they could do yours

JFoster

What the F! I thought alot of us were running the autozone specials for their lifetime warranty .... is this a common problem?

Loserkidwac

My friends car does it, I just picked up a set my self and we'll see if they do it for me too, but i think its fairly common

JFoster

What the hell am I gonna do now? I don't have $$$ for the upgraded axles ... I need to get the car tuned but a full pull to 10psi would eject his *** out the window/missing door

95civicLX

wouldnt hurt to check your tire pressure....its a SEARS alignment....ive had cars come in with 80 psi of pressure in one tire thats only supposed to have 32psi...

Zeniceguycrx

changed the shaft im my 95 civ, same ----
sent it back and got a new one, the old one didnt have a balance ring on it
new axel is perfect again

JFoster

Hmm ... I broke the drivers side axle right at the balance ring .... can't recall a balance ring being on the new one ... I'll have to look again tomorrow.

I thought I was savin myself future work by replacing both ... but now IDK which one is the problem .. and such a PIA to swap back to stock , test drive, back to new, etc .... this is rediculous....burn this car to the ground

danronian

I thought I saw this on honda-tech....
Yeah like i said in that thread too, take them out and get them balanced at a driveshaft shop. The cost should be pretty low, like about $50 per side. The company Raxles (i think thats the name), remanufactures axles and actually does balance them and I've heard all good stories about peoples cars not shaking after using them. Getting your lifetime axles balanced would be the best idea i think. I might do the same but I know my friend is going to get it done on his 97 LS turbo soon (well thats what he says at least), i'll try to remember to update if this cures the problem. He has also replaced all of his axles and has poly inserts in all of his mounts (all dc integra mounts that is) so something loose is not the issue for his car either.

danronian

I thought it might be b/c of my car being mis aligned too but then I got an alignment that cost me nearly $200 b/c the ******* said my car was low and they complained about having a hard time doing it.... the car doesnt pull bad and still shakes. I know my friends teg who i was just talking about above also has had an alignment since it was lowered and the problem was not fixed. This could be a low-car related problem b/c both of us are lowered over 2.5in...but then you said you have a finger something gap, so i guess that theory wouldnt work.