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Old 03-20-2006, 12:26 PM
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After I upgraded the brakes on my bro's LT1 (put LS1 front brakes on it) a shuttering has appeared when you turn the wheel to the left in park, and to the right while the car is moving. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what might be causing this. My thought is maybe balljoints but I can't be sure.

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Originally Posted by 99blue-Z
After I upgraded the brakes on my bro's LT1 (put LS1 front brakes on it) a shuttering has appeared when you turn the wheel to the left in park, and to the right while the car is moving. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas as to what might be causing this. My thought is maybe balljoints but I can't be sure.

Thanks for your help.
I'm not sure I understand your symptom. You have the shuttering in Park while the wheel is turned left? It would be weird for the brakes to cause this problem. Is it engine shutter? What all did you replace?
Rotors? Pads? Calipers? Do you get any lights or codes?
If it was a ball joint problem, it would not explain your shuttering when your not moving.
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That's what I thought too, but after we first discovered the problem, I realized that my brother did not grease one of the new lower balljoints and the problem somewhat improved when we added grease, leading me to believe this is the cause. To answer your question, we replaced rotors, pads, calipers, hub assembly, the brackets that hold the calipers and hubs, and lower ball joints
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Well, I went through, at my brother's insistance, and changed the lower and upper balljoints and this did not cure the above problem. If anybody has any suggestions, I would much appreciate them.

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Power steering issue? Pump, fluid, rack & pinion.
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If its doing it in park, Id say start looking at the Power steering system like KENS_SS_4 said.
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Just now noticed that the vibration is real bad off of the power steering fluid reservoir, I am thinking the pump may be going bad, so I'll try that.

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if you take the belt of and the pulley can be moved up and down, it is going.




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