7.5 Rear End Issues
10-29-2007, 11:09 AM
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7.5 Rear End Issues
Ok so i know NOTHING about rear ends except that I have an 9 inch in my 65,8.8 in my gt and, 7.5 in my 88.
But anyways I decided to be a dumbass and did like donuts on saturday night and when i launched afterwards i heard a LOUD crack from the rear end...I stopped right up the road and took a look to see if anything was broken...didnt notice anything outta the ordinary. got back in it and took it easy everytime i get above 70 the car starts swaying like in the rear....and if i leave hard it feels to pull to one side...I dont know weither I broke something internally can anyone help me figure out what i did?
But anyways I decided to be a dumbass and did like donuts on saturday night and when i launched afterwards i heard a LOUD crack from the rear end...I stopped right up the road and took a look to see if anything was broken...didnt notice anything outta the ordinary. got back in it and took it easy everytime i get above 70 the car starts swaying like in the rear....and if i leave hard it feels to pull to one side...I dont know weither I broke something internally can anyone help me figure out what i did?
10-29-2007, 01:27 PM
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RE: 7.5 Rear End Issues
I am not sure what exactly happened but I had a simular problem with my truck, after reaching about 70 mph it would start to sway, I jacked up the truck and sure enough the ubolts holding the differentail to the leaf springs had come lose. I would just jack the car up on jack stands supported by the frame of the car not the rear end, then see if you can move the rear end side to side or front to back.
Granted your car is not the same as the truck was they theory and symptom are the same
Granted your car is not the same as the truck was they theory and symptom are the same
10-29-2007, 03:40 PM
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RE: 7.5 Rear End Issues
Tight bolts on bad u-joints arentgoing to do anything to keep them together. And when they go you better hope it isnt the front one. As for the rear sway, maybe broken sway bar, maybe control arm or control arm bushings. Or you tore a torque box loose.
10-30-2007, 12:05 PM
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RE: 7.5 Rear End Issues
Update...I jacked the car up, and nothing!! i cant see anything wrong except i found out that my parking brake was f***ed up. But as for the rear end nothing seems to be broken, loose, nothing you think its internal?