Drive Shaft rubbing

Rel · Dec 16, 2008

My Driveshaft is rubbing my emergency brake bracket and cables.
I already had them cut out the inside metal of it. But its still rubbing.

I also noticed when the car was in the air that the driveshaft is moved over towards the passenger side. Im sure that is not normal.

What could cause this? And what needs to be done.

Mods in sig

Rel · Dec 16, 2008

Also alittle while ago my e brake stopped working and the noise is alot louder.

RubberDown · Dec 16, 2008

sounds like you had a hard launch at some point that shifted the diff to me... but im not an expert. Maybe someone else can chime in?

Rel · Dec 16, 2008

Only thing different is I had the car towed recently and maybe the suspension has settle but either way the driveshaft is way to much to the passenger side.

Tabres · Dec 16, 2008

What do your subframes look like?

98 Saleen Cobra · Dec 17, 2008

Yea my driveshaft rubbed so bad on my ebrake it snapped the cable one time.. and ruined my d/s. Now I have to buy another one..

FX4 SAPPER · Dec 17, 2008

I had the same issue, i just grinded the ebrake tab down enough to where there wasnt any issues, also is your car on a free lift? or a wheel lift, if its a free lift it could just be that one side of your suspension is worn from time or abuse, you probably need to grind more of the lip off you can get some plastic retainers that screw into your floor pans and run the cable through that and just remove the lip completely. You want that fixed soon, a snapped D/S aint pretty

My94GT · Dec 17, 2008

i just bent mine around till they were out of the way. if anything ill hammer out around them and bend them up higher.

b dub · Dec 17, 2008

You need to check your rear lower control bushings. Ask me how I know...

Rel · Dec 17, 2008

How do I check th lower control arm bushings?
Someone said it could be my engine mounts?
I have new ones.. I will install them tommorrow.

b dub · Dec 17, 2008

It's not going to be your engine mounts. They can't tilt the driveshaft up far enough to touch the tunnel. I don't even think your trans mount could do that.

And also, you shouldn't need to grind or smash on anything either. It came like it is from the factory and it didn't contact then.

To check your bushings, put it up in the air on a drive on lift, or a rack you can get under, and with the car in neutral, rock it back and forth while looking at the bushings. You should see the arm itself moving a whole lot and the bushing moving very little. In fact you might see the bushing literally hanging out of the arm and won't even need to rock it at all.

Rel · Dec 17, 2008

Any idea what else it could be?
Im gonna get stock replacements lower control arms from my friends wrecked car.

Anything else it could be?

b dub · Dec 17, 2008

A damaged subframe. Ask Tabres about that one. Trust me, this is not an abnormal thing for these cars....

Rel · Dec 17, 2008

My car has damage to the rocker panel under the passenger side door but alittle furthur back.. It didnt come into the car just exterior(pushed up alittle) from what I can see..

How do I check subframe and if it is messed up what are my costs to fix. I can take pictures tommorrow.

Rel · Dec 17, 2008

OK after reading

http://www.svtperformance.com/forum...-hitting-tunnel-problem-56k-warning-pics.html

Im pretty sure thats my exact problem... Gonna bring it to a shop and see what they say. Thanks for yall time.

Rel · Dec 18, 2008

Pictures of underneath tommorrow

KazooGS-T · Dec 18, 2008

Ouch, my factory DS rubbed the brake cable; it wore a groove and stopped rubbing on it. I assume one of the biggest problems is the car is slammed; not a worry anymore though.