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Car Forum / Dodge / Dodge Cars / March 2005

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94 Grand Caravan 3.8 Shakes on acceleration

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techdrive - 25 Mar 2005 04:06 GMT
I have owned this van since '96 and had the tranny rebuilt at 83,000. It
now has 206,000 on it. About 2 months ago I drove from here in PA to
Connecticut which was mostly highway. On the trip home I noticed a shimmy
which was not bad but noticeable at around 60 MPH. I had the tires checked
and balanced in case I had thrown a wheel weight or had a failing tire. The
tech told me the tires were fine and balance was off by .5 gram on the left
front. On the ride home it seemed exactly the same. It's been 2 months and
it has gotten so bad that it feels like your teeth are going to fall out
when pulling even a small hill at 40 MPH. AT 40 MPH, the shaking is at
it's worst and it's important to note that this shaking only happens when
you are on the gas. The rythm of the shake makes you think you have a tire
where the tread is delaminating if you've ever felt that. But let her coast
and the shaking is gone immediately - at any speed. There is no CV clicking
on corners or straight. Looking under I see no torn boots or anything else
obvious. Help! I'm really at a loss here.
SN - 25 Mar 2005 04:34 GMT
> I have owned this van since '96 and had the tranny rebuilt at 83,000. It
> now has 206,000 on it. About 2 months ago I drove from here in PA to
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> on corners or straight. Looking under I see no torn boots or anything else
> obvious. Help! I'm really at a loss here.

 These symptoms are usually caused by one of the inner CV joints going bad.
torgeir jensen - 26 Mar 2005 20:45 GMT
Had exactly same symptoms on my 93 chrysler grand Voyager. Replaced right
one and it wasnt it. It was the left inner.

Torgeir

>> I have owned this van since '96 and had the tranny rebuilt at 83,000. It
>> now has 206,000 on it. About 2 months ago I drove from here in PA to
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
>  These symptoms are usually caused by one of the inner CV joints going
> bad.
snow - 27 Mar 2005 03:14 GMT
I got the same symptoms with my 1992 Caravan. My local mechanic could not
find the problem, but now I wonder if he looked close enough now. Same
symptoms as you describe.
>I have owned this van since '96 and had the tranny rebuilt at 83,000. It
> now has 206,000 on it. About 2 months ago I drove from here in PA to
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
> on corners or straight. Looking under I see no torn boots or anything else
> obvious. Help! I'm really at a loss here.
 
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