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Originally Posted by arew264
Okay, I'm resurrecting this thread, but I think it's justifiable.
The car was taken to a good tire shop, and they swapped the front tires to the rear and put in new front tires and balanced them. The back tires were fairly old, but there wasn't anything dramatically wrong with them.
The vibration seems less noticeable, but it's still there. I wasn't too concerned about it because between the onset of summer and my dad getting a motorcycle that he likes to drive to work on sunny days, this car wasn't getting a lot of driving.
I got under it today, and it looks like the rear tranny mount is letting it move too freely, but I'm not really sure.
I'm attaching some pictures I took of the mount and the flex disks. The flex disks don't really look bad, although the surface on the front one is disintegrating a bit. I'm not really a good judge there, so I'm posting the pictures.
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I should mention, I did push up on the driveshaft, and there's no noticeable flex in it. Pushing up on the tranny will get it to move, although not much. Then again, I am admittedly fairly wimpy.
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Good pics. Thanks for posting. The transmission mount is obviously cracking and could probably stand to be replaced. I'm not sure that will cure your problem though.
You didn't explicitly say - did the tire shop balance the tires they moved to the rear. If not I would go back and have the rear (former front) tires balanced. This won't cost much time or money, so I would do that before get too involved in anything else.
Once upon a time I had a car that was shaking pretty good. For some reason I decided that it was the half-shaft (I think it felt a little loose), so I invested a couple hundred buck and many hours into replacing it. You can imagine how let down I was when I took it for a test drive after that and the problem persisted. Then I decided to take it to get the tires looked. Turned out a I had a bum tire - replaced it and the problem was gone. I often like to learm my lessons the hard way. Take my advice, start with the cheap/easy solution and work from there.