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Topic #93294 5 posts Started by kgris001
I have just recently lowered my 95 celica, i slammed her pretty low and began to have axle binding when i accelerate. I raised it up a bit today and at first i thought it help a little but i am not sure. I can't afford to blow axles every week so i was wondering if anybody has gone through this and found an alternative solution rather then just raising it back up. (after all, that is why i got coilovers in the first place)

Thanks, Kevin
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QUOTE (kgris001 @ Jul 18, 2014 - 6:21 PM) *
>I have just recently lowered my 95 celica, i slammed her pretty low and began to have axle binding when i accelerate. I raised it up a bit today and at first i thought it help a little but i am not sure. I can't afford to blow axles every week so i was wondering if anybody has gone through this and found an alternative solution rather then just raising it back up. (after all, that is why i got coilovers in the first place)

Thanks, Kevin


What is 'axle binding'?
The angle of the axles are off to much, there is a vibration on acceleration.
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QUOTE (kgris001 @ Jul 19, 2014 - 9:41 AM) *
>The angle of the axles are off to much, there is a vibration on acceleration.


Meaning that your CV joints were at too great an angle to operate freely? They were getting bound up and either broke or vibrated and wore them badly, so you had to replace the whole axles, like both of them?
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QUOTE (Langing @ Jul 19, 2014 - 9:46 AM) *
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QUOTE (kgris001 @ Jul 19, 2014 - 9:41 AM) *
>The angle of the axles are off to much, there is a vibration on acceleration.


Meaning that your CV joints were at too great an angle to operate freely? They were getting bound up and either broke or vibrated and wore them badly, so you had to replace the whole axles, like both of them?


Seems to me that, if lowering caused the binding, then raising should have helped. Exactly what the limits are, I do not know.