Car Shimmying and popping

[eoseitz]

I'm not quite sure how to describe this. It's as though the car shimmy's back and forth. The car also pulls to the right pretty bad. When coming to stops I also hear a popping sound. I can't figure out if the sound is coming from the front or rear. I can feel the pop in my drivers seat though. I just replaced all the u joints two weeks ago, so they should be good. I'm leaning toward ball joints or wheel bearings. I know the wheel bearings need greased. I greased the outter front drivers side when I had the car on the lift doing the u joints.

Could this maybe be a combination of problems. My tires are definitely in need of changing. I'm thinking maybe broken belts. Luckily I have a front suspension rebuild kit. That should take in everything except the wheel bearings, pitman arm, and gear box.

Unfortunately, I was in a car wreck and my daily driver is down. I have to drive this daily, so I can only repair a bit at a time over the weekends. Any suggestions as to what I should repair first? I'm definitely thinking new tires this weekend. However, I'm concerned about tire wear with the allignment issues.

Oh as a side note, I have a new leaf spring on the back. Replaced it about two years ago. It still looks like its in great shape. I need to change the bushing though. I have those as well.

Thanks for any responses.

 

[eoseitz]

Figured out what the problem was. Tire blew out on the way to work today. Too bad it couldn't have lasted until tomorrow. I planned on changing the darn things out this weekend.

 

[TimAT]

Made it easy to find what it was.. Hopefully no damage?

 

[Mac]

Pretty tough to do the suspension rebuild while daily driving. Hopefully, you will have a different daily driver soon!!

-Mac