Need help figuring out what's wrong with my car.

[FiestaSTdude]

There is a slight amount of engine movement, didn't get super high up in the revs but I'm able to move the engine with my hands pretty easily as well. Hopefully it's just that, I'm also just impatient for shipping looks like it'll be about 2 weeks before the mounts are here.

I could also be stupid and it might be my tire pressures being off, but I'd expect that to be constant. Temps have changed so that does make sense, my pressure gauge exploded so I'll buy a new one and check after work. Maybe I'm lucky and that's part of the problem, I'll find out and update.

You shouldn't be able to move the engine with your hands, that's one of the things that I look at on the focus to tell if the mounts are bad.
I would definitely check those tire pressures too.
I hate waiting for stuff to come, plus shipping for everything seems to be slow right now.

 

[mosephuss]

Thanks for the replies and help everyone. Tire pressure was low but that doesn't seem to have been the culprit. Motor mounts are ordered but it's looking like over a week till delivery unfortunately.

I'll update once they're installed if that fixed the issue I'm having, hopefully that's the case. If not I'm thinking something to do with the torsion bar.

 

[TyphoonFiST]

How many miles on the FiST?

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[mosephuss]

How many miles on the FiST?

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100,800 miles

 

[TyphoonFiST]

Sway bar Bushings* is another thing that comes to mind. It would be worth checking those out also.

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[Intuit]

Keep in mind that stiffening one engine mount, (like the rear), means the other two begin seeing more stress. If you install stiffer non-OEM engine mounts, don't be lazy. Done right, you'll do them all.

 

[Intuit]

"Vague" handling can be ball joints. Prior car, drove on a busted one for at least several months. Jacking it up in the air and pushing/pulling on the wheel with all of my 140lbs did nothing. Finally one day I unbolted it from the control arm and to my surprise, it literally plopped to the garage floor. THe other end was still in the wheel hub steering knuckle clamp. THe ball joint was literally shattered. They were still new at that point and wish I had just kept the OEM.

 

[FiestaSTdude]

Keep in mind that stiffening one engine mount, (like the rear), means the other two begin seeing more stress. If you install stiffer non-OEM engine mounts, don't be lazy. Done right, you'll do them all.

Good to know. I should probably upgrade the other two mounts on my Fiesta.

 

[mosephuss]

"Vague" handling can be ball joints. Prior car, drove on a busted one for at least several months. Jacking it up in the air and pushing/pulling on the wheel with all of my 140lbs did nothing. Finally one day I unbolted it from the control arm and to my surprise, it literally plopped to the garage floor. THe other end was still in the wheel hub steering knuckle clamp. THe ball joint was literally shattered. They were still new at that point and wish I had just kept the OEM.

Control arms are brand new with ball joints and bushings, changing them didn't make much of a difference but the end links did.
Also gonna take it back in for alignment again since the steering wheel is now off center more than it was before alignment. I'll post a pic of my alignment specs as well if anyone wants to see.

Another thing to not about alignment, what I understand is that the rear isn't adjustable at all right? The last two times I've had it aligned since spinning out the rear alignment was different before vs. after. I've chalked this up to being discrepancies in the measuring but I think it's worth mentioning. When applying force to either of the rear wheels on a lift there is no movement.