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I changed the brakes a week ago, and whenever I reached 50 MPH the steering wheel started wobbling a little bit. After 2-3 times of that happening it stopped. Today on my way to work I noticed a rattling/grinding noise as I turn while in drive and/or accelerate, feels like on the front passenger side. On my way home from work it sounded like something scraping when hitting bumps on the passenger's side, the driver's side is normal. Does anyone know what it is? I think it might be a tie rod or ball joint. I will be checking it in the morning but if anyone has a really good idea of what it is let me know. It is a 1994 3.4L Automatic Firebird.
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Re: Grinding/Scraping Noise
If you just did brakes and then it happened you may wanna pop off the wheel and see whats up. Did you do the work your self? Did you replace just pads or did you replace the rotors too? Inspect the rotor see if it's warped or has a pattern being scratched into it. The worst I've seen is a rusted rotor turn into a donut because of an application of gas and parking brake on a front wheel drive. I've also seen people have trouble threading the caliper's bolts on properly. The bolt will feel like its getting a bit tight, but it will never "stop" at proper torque because it's not lined up properly. I'd guess u would have seen a really big problem already if that happened though :-P. I wouldn't drive it without verifying what the problem is unless you plan to take it very easy. Losing a front wheel or your brakes would could certainly suck at anything over 30mph :-/.sigpic -
Re: Grinding/Scraping Noise
I just changed the pads. Do you think it has more to do with the brakes then the suspension? What would be the scraping noise when hitting bumps be?Comment
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Re: Grinding/Scraping Noise
Well it would be a logical place to look since you would probably need to pop the wheel off anyway and you just did brake work. The tolerances in the brakes are very very fine. I've seen camaro's rotors so slightly warped you couldn't even tell visually. They would make noise only on hot brakes and loudest around turns. Your description does not sound like this of course, but my point is it's a logical place to start looking since you recently messed around with that part of the car. It could easily be suspension of course especially on these old cars.sigpicComment
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