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Heya folks. After 11 years, I am still driving my 93 Festiva but lately, after quite a bit of maintenance, I have a pesky steering wheel shake/vibration that is getting irritating. Comes in worst around 66 mph. I know there are numerous threads on here for vibrations/shakes and I have read them all,..believe me. Here is the work that has been done recently:
1.) Struts
2.) CV axles
3.) Control Arms
4.) Rear Shocks
5.) OUuter Tie Rod Ends (Aspire Swap)
6.) Front and Rear Wheel Bearings (Aspire Swap)
7.) Complete Brakes, front and rear (Aspire Swap)
8.) Tranny replaced (Junkyard item used)
Now,..I am looking for some direction here. My motor mounts are factory originals and the car has 200K miles on it,...160K put on by me personally. The inner tie-rods have also never been touched. Lastly, when doing the Aspire swap, I noticed the ends of the front sway bar were really rotten, I live in Minnesota and our Highway Dept. loves salt. Bushings are rotten too, cracked badly and really mushy, can almost see daylight through the bushings around the sway bar. I would put new bushings in a heart beat but with the sway bar being so rusted, does it make more sense to replace the sway bar and the bushings!? If yes,..where can I get a new sway bar!? Also,..how do you tell if the motor mounts or inner tie rod ends are bad?.
You guys are the pros when it comes to these little cars and it wouldn't have lasted 11 years here in MN without ya. Help me keep it going!!
What do ya suggest I do next to fix the shake!?
1.) Struts
2.) CV axles
3.) Control Arms
4.) Rear Shocks
5.) OUuter Tie Rod Ends (Aspire Swap)
6.) Front and Rear Wheel Bearings (Aspire Swap)
7.) Complete Brakes, front and rear (Aspire Swap)
8.) Tranny replaced (Junkyard item used)
Now,..I am looking for some direction here. My motor mounts are factory originals and the car has 200K miles on it,...160K put on by me personally. The inner tie-rods have also never been touched. Lastly, when doing the Aspire swap, I noticed the ends of the front sway bar were really rotten, I live in Minnesota and our Highway Dept. loves salt. Bushings are rotten too, cracked badly and really mushy, can almost see daylight through the bushings around the sway bar. I would put new bushings in a heart beat but with the sway bar being so rusted, does it make more sense to replace the sway bar and the bushings!? If yes,..where can I get a new sway bar!? Also,..how do you tell if the motor mounts or inner tie rod ends are bad?.
You guys are the pros when it comes to these little cars and it wouldn't have lasted 11 years here in MN without ya. Help me keep it going!!
What do ya suggest I do next to fix the shake!?
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