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    #1

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    Okay here I go...

    My car shakes when I drive (can't currently, needs a new air flow thingy). Ruled out bearings since my tires wouldn't move w/o them. My back right tire rubs on the sidewall, last tire popped cause of it.

    When I got new rubber the guy was like yourrims are not round. They are oval.

    How can I get it to stop rubbing? New rims (size 15 by the way)? right trailing arm?

    Next on the list, I have completed the automatic to a 5 speed conversion. But ONE thing. The shifter (bottom of it) barely nicks the driveshaft. Does anybody have tranny mounts that will drop the tranny+driveline down like 1 inch?

    There is more I think but I'll ask later.
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    #2
    If your wheels are bent badly enough to make the tires rub at certain spots, I'd think you need to either take them to a professional or get new wheels. Have you tried swapping a wheel from another car or another wheel on the car to see if the rubbing goes away?

    As for the shifter info, is the shifter hitting the vibration damper on the driveshaft? If so, you can easily remove it... it really doesn't do much of anything except add rotational mass.

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      #3
      Thing about the tires is we don't have another wheel to try out. My last tire popped cause it was rubbing.

      And as far sd the vibration thingy, its been removed. :(

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        #4
        I'm sure someone has more to say on this dude's problem, so I'm going to "bump" and give my opinion on it. I'd say that his right trailing arm is bent down so that the wheel has positive camber, and is rubbing constantly on the fender, if it were just the wheel, then it'd be wobbling, and only hitting at one point. I don't want him spending $350+ on new wheels just to find out that it was a bent trailing arm.

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          #5
          put the rear up on jack stands and put it in gear and let the tires spin if they wobble then thats your rubbing problem if not then get out the tap and compare meaurments between the left and right wheels. also are the wheels original cause they could have the wrong offset.

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            #6
            Well they are 15s and aren't stock 14s? Plus when I got new rubber the guy was like your rims are banged up. Not round, barely able to balence, so on. Would it be because of non-round rims?

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              #7
              perhaps depends how badly they're bent. no matter what you shouldn't be driving on bent rims.

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                #8
                perhaps depends how badly they're bent. no matter what you shouldn't be driving on bent rims.

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