shakes when under 45

[Guest]

My car shakes (as in the steering wheel shakes and the whole thing shakes) i pinpointed it to the passenger side wheel, i've taken the wheel off, checked, adjusted, changed the tire, but it keeps shaking, nothing loose, everything is connected, W T F .
It never gives me problems and BAM one day starts shaking. ***. all help is appreciated.

[Guest]

It could be a few things, have you curbed it? Or hit a pot hole hard? are you 100% it's in the pass side? It could be out of allignment. It's easy to knock it out of allignment. Lug nuts loose, (hope not) some times a thrown wheel weight will cause a viberation.  twisted bands in tires.

[IsaacHayes]

Have you put on a different wheel? Like thrown on the spare and see what happens? it could be a bad tire (broken belt) or unbalanced wheel. Or bent wheel.

I've been lucky I hit a curb accelerating at 25mph and 1/4 of the car jumped on to grass then came down. No body damage, no suspension damage, alignment fine. Tire was fine too (Z26 rims). I think the tire hit it dead on so the force wasn't too off kelter. Gotta remember not to take your hand off the wheel while looking away as torque steer can attack at any time! lol
I about cried I thought I banged up the body of the car, tire, alignment, etc. I was like well time for a new car. But nothing at all was wrong! phew!!!

[rweatherford]

How do you know which side it is?  What about the wheel bearing and axle?

Axles can cause SEVERE shaking especially if the problem is more prominant when letting off on the gas or near coasting.

[Guest]

I know its the passenger side because i've had people tell me that wheel is shaking. Sounds a lot like the axle description.

[Guest]

well how do i fix it ?

[rweatherford]

Pull out the axle and replace it.

What do you want to know?

[Guest]

I want to know if you guys have a write up on how to change an axle. Never done it before.