Right rear wheel movement?

[Jimdevx5]

So I was installing my right rear wheel after replacing a bad swaybar link when I noticed the wheel had weird play not like a bearing or ball joint almost like it was connected to a spring? Didn’t dive to deep cuz it was late but if you held the wheel. At about ten o clock and five o clock and pushed in at ten. O clock the wheel felt like it would spring in and out weird???

[80stech]

By design, there will some movement like that in all the wheels coming from rubber bushings.

[Jimdevx5]

Seems excessive

[80stech]

Originally Posted by Jimdevx5

Seems excessive

Then you will have to replace some of those bushings.

[Emory39]

I will have to say your upper controls arms

[bcredliner]

You shouldn't be able to cause movement by hand. Can you do the same thing on the other side? Are your tires wearing excessively on the inside?

[Jimdevx5]

Yup!

[oldskewel]

Definitely not normal unless you're unbelievably strong. Superhero of some sort?

Even with failed ball joints (I had that on my 2001 3.0i, and it is perhaps the most common failure back there, deep in there), diagnosing a very loose ball joint is difficult due to how everything tightens up with the spring when the car is jacked up. In that case, you're supposed to jack it as well at the spring perch to unload the spring, allowing for testing of the loose ball joint. Tough to do.

So I'd get back in there and test. Or if you're fighting crime and saving the city of Boston, keep doing that too.

[Jimdevx5]

Found it!!! dragged the wife outside to move the wheel rear upper control arm that the brake lines run on! The outer bushing close to the tire is shot!!!

[Jimdevx5]