Here's the scoop. I bought this car, but it all together with brand new wheels/used tires. I'm getting a noise from the right rear area that sounds like a wah wah wah wah wah sound. It's kinda of slow in frequency and speeds up as my speed increases.
The car does not bounce or move up and down at low or high speeds. At first, the tires were chopped up good, but after a few burnouts and couple semi-long trips they have smoothed out nicely, no chopping at all.
I've also jacked the rear end up and let it idle in 2nd gear while I watched the tires. They are both spinning nice and true with no deformations in the tread anywhere.
To try and rule out the tires, I put my spare on, and while the noise wasn't anywhere near as noticeable, it was still present. I'm figuring axle bearings at this point because the wider 10" wheel puts a lot more stress on that bearing and thus makes it louder. I don't have an extra set of stock wheels/tires laying around or I'd try them to be certain, but in my way of thinking a spare tire doesn't have enough tread width to make any considerable noise and the noise was the same (same pitch, tone etc).
Anyone care to share your experience with bad axle bearings? The noise it made etc??
Oh, and the axle is straight, I had the car aligned and asked all those questions while it was on the rack and he showed me all the readings. And I'm pretty sure the noise is coming from the rear because I had my wife get in the back seat (down perverts!
The car does not bounce or move up and down at low or high speeds. At first, the tires were chopped up good, but after a few burnouts and couple semi-long trips they have smoothed out nicely, no chopping at all.
I've also jacked the rear end up and let it idle in 2nd gear while I watched the tires. They are both spinning nice and true with no deformations in the tread anywhere.
To try and rule out the tires, I put my spare on, and while the noise wasn't anywhere near as noticeable, it was still present. I'm figuring axle bearings at this point because the wider 10" wheel puts a lot more stress on that bearing and thus makes it louder. I don't have an extra set of stock wheels/tires laying around or I'd try them to be certain, but in my way of thinking a spare tire doesn't have enough tread width to make any considerable noise and the noise was the same (same pitch, tone etc).
Anyone care to share your experience with bad axle bearings? The noise it made etc??
Oh, and the axle is straight, I had the car aligned and asked all those questions while it was on the rack and he showed me all the readings. And I'm pretty sure the noise is coming from the rear because I had my wife get in the back seat (down perverts!