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Help diagnosing excessive wobble at low speeds

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Old 09-28-18, 06:50 PM
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Question Help diagnosing excessive wobble at low speeds

Hey everyone, I have a 2001 es300. I recently replaced my both of my cv shafts last weekend and since then I’ve been getting what I can best describe as lateral wobbles at low speeds. Between 10-25 mph these wobbles are the most pronounced. The wobbles are dependent on acceleration and do not happen unless I am accelerating. I do not feel the wobbles in the steering wheel, It feels like the whole chassis is shaking from side to side. All my tires have been checked, rotated, and balanced. I had an alignment right after I changed the shafts. It’s on coil overs but I’m not sure if that’s too relevant but who knows. Next thing I tried was replacing the torque mount which is in the top left of the bay, I think some people call it the dog bone mount. That didn’t help at all. Can anyone offer some insight?
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Many possible causes, but of course the first thing to do is to check the work done.

The axle nut on these requires high torque. I would wonder if that was done correctly. Also I would suspect if the ball joints weren’t reinstalled correctly, or if they were damged when removed if they were not replaced. There are a lot of places in this repair for errors, both in disassembly and reassembly.

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