Maybe something's bent? (Wheel vibration/pull)

[toybreaker]

A loose front control arm rear bushing can cause this.

Try and pry the rear of the arm sideways in its bracket and watch how much the pin moves in the bushing. Any more than a scosche will allow the caster to change relative to the loading the arm is seeing and that can lead to all kinds of weirdness.

 

[DR1665]

Swapped the rotors, loaded the arm, pried on the LCA joint. No dice.

At this point, it's gotta be the rotors or the ball joint, right?

 

[curtis]

Do you have stainless lines on the calipers or old rubber ones. Could have blockage.... something else and it happened to me. The rear caliper started the business your describing and was blow torch hot sometimes and others wasn't. Only thing I could figure out was the caliper was not releasing all the way. I went to get a rebuild kit at 8:45 since I need to drive to work the next morning. No dice so I replaced the piston seal with a normal o ring from there benchstock. The factory ones are square O rings and over time will swell and bind. I changed that and problem solved and is still in the caliper now. Weeks after the caliper ordeal it start making noise so I replaced the rear bearings and solved that.


If your in there anyway pull the caliper and use a air hose to pop out the pistons and use a hone to clean up the bores and reinstall the inter and outer seal. You might have one piston that's froze up, and do that saftey stuff place a board in front of the pistons so they don't come out at mach 12 and wear some glasses.

 

[DR1665]

Well, sir, that sounds a bit involved for my facilities. In changing the pads, the pistons/boots looked fine, if not a little dirty. They compressed easily and evenly with a c-clamp and the old pads. The car is running upgraded lines at all four corners. If it turns out there's a caliper issue, I'll just swap from the other car, but I'd rather not do something so extreme without knowing for sure, ya know?

 

[DR1665]

Possible developments... Looks like TOYBREAKER was right again!

Spent a couple hours test driving some new cars last night. Left the Galant parked at the Subaru dealer. (Wife likes the Forester). Got ready to leave and noticed the RF tire was very low. Upon closer inspection, the tread had begun to separate from the carcass in multiple places. With a load on the mounted wheel/tire, these slits were pushed wide open. There are a total of SIX such cracks spaced almost evenly around the tire.

Go figure.[/i]

 

[14u2nV]

If your wheel wobbled when you had it JSB, and changing the wheel to the other side didn't change it, then that is not your only problem.