[Sacramento]: Sacramento Z Owners
#4805
Oh and also check out your wheel bearings. Braking, turning clunky noises on my truck turned out to be a bad bearing and whatever you call the thing behind the rotor. I had never heard the word before but several friends of mine knew what the mechanic guy was talking about so I just assumed he wasnt lying like he did that time he said I had a unicorn in my exhaust poking holes in it... that ****ing unicorn...
was a mother****ing pegasus anyway.
was a mother****ing pegasus anyway.
#4807
My DD is a Frontier 4x4. It gets like 20-25 mpg on a good day combined. Coming down out of Tahoe it gets killer mileage because I can just let her coast most of the way. lol. I actually tested it out as I used to stay on the gas/brake coming out of the mountains and then later on decided to let it ride and only use brakes to keep it in check, came out with about 400 miles the tank as opposed to my standard 300ish if I stay on it. Also I only go about 65/70 in my truck as after that the mileage falls off quick. Pisses off all those guys in the gas saving civics and prius that want to go 80-90mph because that totally makes sense. On a side note, WTF is up with that? The people that pass me going 90ish most often are the guys in the gas savers, therefore they are getting the same mileage I am getting. Is the point there that they get there faster than me and with the same mileage? That has to be it. Otherwise I think I will just start running them all off the road everytime they flip me off for going "too slow".
/end rant
/end rant
TOTALLY! Seems like the fastest car coming over teh summit is always a Pruis. lol
I can do it for you... You will still need an alignment, but the install isnt that hard...
OR Autovantage in Auburn is a good shop...
AND I need help too guys... When turning right (mostly) my Z jitters and my slip light comes on, and if I press the brakes it get worse, and if I accelerate it get worse... this usually only lasts for a few seconds at a time, but thats enough to scare me... Any ideas what the problem could be or what I can search for on here?
OR Autovantage in Auburn is a good shop...
AND I need help too guys... When turning right (mostly) my Z jitters and my slip light comes on, and if I press the brakes it get worse, and if I accelerate it get worse... this usually only lasts for a few seconds at a time, but thats enough to scare me... Any ideas what the problem could be or what I can search for on here?
#4808
AND I need help too guys... When turning right (mostly) my Z jitters and my slip light comes on, and if I press the brakes it get worse, and if I accelerate it get worse... this usually only lasts for a few seconds at a time, but thats enough to scare me... Any ideas what the problem could be or what I can search for on here?
#4809
Nope, nothing is snapped or even mis-threaded...
18x9.75 +20 with 245/45 all around... been running them for almost a year now and this started maybe 2 months ago and is progressively getting worse.. so Ive stopped driving it again...
18x9.75 +20 with 245/45 all around... been running them for almost a year now and this started maybe 2 months ago and is progressively getting worse.. so Ive stopped driving it again...
#4810
Hit any good bumps recently? My truck snapped a wheel bearing when we had road construction. Hit a bump going about 45 where the road surface changed and it just broke. Must have been worn already but that jarring caused it to go the rest of the way. It caused us issues for a few weeks even after replacing it. Spindle... thats the word they used. They replaced my wheel bearing and whatever the **** a spindle is and then did the brake rotors and what not too just because why not its already off. Basically everything on the front got changed except the calipers and the axles themselves. If you did **** up your axles, if they are anything like the rear end ones which I have never looked at on my Z yet but I am sure they are, they are relatively simple to replace if you know your way around a tool box and a car lift. I doubt you went that far on your damage. Im putting my money on wheel bearing or whatever a spindle is. I am sure one of you guys will school me on what that word relates to in a car term I have heard before but apparently its a part on my truck and I am sure its also on a car. But yea, mine made weird clunking chattery noise that was worse at low speeds and while turning, I am assuming because the bearing was clunking around.
Also, that pegasus, was pretty easy to get out, I put a bird feeder on one exhaust and a salt lick on the other and he found his way out. I dont know which one he went for so I cant recommend one or the other but when their powers combined I am captain planet! Oh and he came out. Also I welded the hole in my exhaust.
Also, that pegasus, was pretty easy to get out, I put a bird feeder on one exhaust and a salt lick on the other and he found his way out. I dont know which one he went for so I cant recommend one or the other but when their powers combined I am captain planet! Oh and he came out. Also I welded the hole in my exhaust.
#4811
ooh just thought of this too, blown strut/shock thingo. I am assuming you would call it a strut on our car since its a coil over style, but those make cool noises when they break. Most of what I have suggested I have never seen happen on a Z car but whatever, I am bored and want to save the day.
#4812
Well the bearing was suggested, but I havent checked that yet but I havent hit any hard/terrible/crater like bumps so that cant have done anything... and struts should be fine but I want coils so it would be an extra, very good excuse haha
#4813
JZ33 - Check you brake fluid? Kinda sounds like you ABS is kinda trippin by how you explain the sound when pressing the brake pedal...just something easy to check
Also how is your alignment? Is your steering wheel crooked or anything?
Also how is your alignment? Is your steering wheel crooked or anything?
#4816