As others have mentioned, it sounds like a bad bearing.
1. Don't drive the car again until you get the hubs rebuilt
2. Have the hubs rebuilt by someone who has experience rebuilding TR
hubs.
My dad had a hub go bad on his Stag a few years back. He had it
rebuilt by the local "import car" garage. The guy did it wrong and the
wheel fell off the car. Luckily my dad felt the vibration, slowed
down, and was doing about 5mph on the shoulder when it fell apart. You
obviously don't want to have this happen at speed...
Tim Holbrook
1971 TR6
--- Keith Meinhold <keith@navyboy.com> wrote:
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:14:43 -0800
> From: Keith Meinhold <keith@navyboy.com>
> Subject: rear end now shudders
> To: 6pack@autox.team.net
> CC: keith@navyboy.com
> Reply-to: Keith Meinhold <keith@navyboy.com>
>
> Ok I just put in new bushings, converted over to tube shocks and put
> in new
> springs. I drove the car about 20 miles, and it was great, but then
> something happened. The fact that I tested the limits of adhesion
> earlier
> may have contributed to the event.
>
> The rear end tends to shudder almost like driving over a washboard
> (at say 2
> to 7MPH). At higher speeds it is just a vibration I can feel in the
> shift
> lever. I put the car in the air and noticed that the right rear wheel
> could
> move, or jiggle like the lug nuts were slightly loose except they
> were
> not. I took the wheel and brake drum off and notices that I could
> jiggle
> the studs in and out about 1/8 inch as well.
>
> The bolts connecting the inner axle to the drive flange on the
> differential
> are tight. The nylock nuts holding the rear hub housing to the
> trailing arm
> are also tight, the brake assembly does not move, and is held in
> tight by
> the hub housing. The hub and outer axle shaft appear move in and out
> about
> 1/8 inch.
>
> 76 TR6
> Keith Meinhold
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>
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