@ Stop sign, start to move forward....

[xrsupra85]

Ok, so I just got done driving from Omaha, Nebraska to Nashville, Tenn. so I could come to College down here...

Anyways, I was out by the mall, and I was at a stop sign. I went to go and my car kind of tuged, felt like in the rear it stalled, but then it went forward....not without going POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP! first. So I thought maybe my u-joints died and the drive shaft fell to the ground, or the clutch just shattered. But the car still moved forward....

Next thought.....sway bar? Nope....CVs? Nope..... Nothing visible, so Im guessing it was my shocks, cuz the car sits a lil lower in the rear, the pop came from the rear, nothing else is visible, and when I hit a bad bump the shudder it gives is worse then before....now I didnt have a very good suspension as it was, so thats why Im leaning toward this....

Any ideas or other things I might want to try looking at before I start to just buy parts for the suspension?

[smark]

Well if you think it's the rear shocks just press down on the back of the car and see how much it bounces.

[Dean]

Check your rear control arms to see if one is rusty/broken/bent.

[todd_85]

Brandon,
Welcome to Nashville. I rarely post such silly things but I bought my 85 Supra in Omaha back in May and drove it home to Nashville. Todd

[xrsupra85]

Brandon,
Welcome to Nashville. I rarely post such silly things but I bought my 85 Supra in Omaha back in May and drove it home to Nashville. Todd

Where abouts did you buy it from? I know of about 3 of them that were for sale, wish i could have bought them but i had to save to get down here. Thanks for the help guys.

[Tommy]

And while you're under there checking the rear control arms and their bushings, check the CV joints in the rear axles, and the driveshaft
U-joints.
Jamie

[bracham]

Maybe a spring snapped? I know it won't be a shock cause the only thing that will happen if a shock goes is that the wheel on that corner will bounce like crazy and your handling will be pathetic. I say a spring or rear control arms/bushings.

[xrsupra85]

But why would a spring or bushing cause the car to tug...like it didnt go forward for a second, and then it just went pop....it just dont make sense.

[bracham]

A friend just had a brainwave....how's your diff? Cause that almost makes sense....it half seizes and then breaks free and keeps going again. I know my diff made some noise when I blew it, but it kept driving for a little bit before it seized right up and wouldn't work at all.

[xrsupra85]

The diff.....thats what we started to think of recently....Im not sure, but if its about to go, thats gunna suck cuz I have no way to fix it....I wonder what is going on with it....It dosent make noise though.......It just poped that one time and hasent done anything sense, but I dont know.......It sucks too, cuz Im in the Light Duty Transmission and Drivetrain phase at school right now too, and I wish I could just take it into the shop and work on it, but we only get to work on the p.o.s. ford crap they have on hand......what an abudance of ford parts there is at the junkyard.......

[Aktunka]

I know this will sound stupid, but I had something similar to what I am saying happen to me once....

Did you get out and check it out right after it happened? The reason I ask is that I had something similar, and thought I had broken something, but got out and checked and it turned out I had just run over something. Was like a full aerosol can type thing although I don't remember what it was. If you didn't get out immediately and check well then no way to know for sure, and I would probably take it in to get checked out at that point. Best of luck whichever way it goes.

[xrsupra85]

Yeah I checked right after it.....I talked to my Instructor here at College, being that Im in the light duty drivetrains anyways. He said he dosent think its the diff. at all.......He thinks that the release bearing got cought on the input shaft (from some sort of lube that has hardned of become sticky) and then when it finally gave way the pop sound was the release bearing flying back and hiting. It only happened just that one time, and there isnt a constant noise from the rear end...

I dont drive too often down here in TN. so hopefully I can get my car just to be allright till I go back home in October of 2005. My thought is that when I drove down here and had all my stuff.......tools, t.v., clothes, and misc. crap......in the back with shity suspension that that prolly didnt help on any part of the car, especially the clutch......