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Ok Thank You for the information FairTax4Me, I will check out the driveline and u joints and bearing, but I don't think they are my culprits either since I drove it in FWD with NO difference in feeling. As far as your questions, please read my first post, it answers all of them except what they did to the car before and I don't know who knows. They fed me a story about how her mom had it all rebuilt for her to drive to my state (she's from a couple states away) and then after 20K on it her dad gave her a new jeep and blah blah blah. (I have no idea) haha

I read about some bad aftermarket axles but after the mechanic already put autozone specials on That being said, I still am not convinced its a cv axle issue, here is why. I put the car on stands and ran it, I know the axles are at different angles but I think odds are I would be able to see the bad cv axle when running on stands. Also if it where a bad cv axle than unless the new cv axles are bad in "The Exact Same" way than I don't see how it could be cause it feels the exact same as before the axles were replaced. I know open diffs only spin one tire when no traction is present, but I thought when I stopped the tire with my hand it would or should have put some power to it, guess I'm wrong there. I will pull the brakes and hub apart myself and check them out. I already checked wheel bearings and they are solid. I really really don't want to spend any more $ on things that are not going to fix it...I understand thats hard to do and probably impossible but I'm hoping One more note on the cv axles I'm just thinking...maybe it had the same cheaso aftermarket axles before they got changed and they just got changed with the same...

bought a cheap subaru, needing some help with it. I have read a ton on the forums and still have not found anyone explain my problem. 93 2.2 NT A/T AWD Legacy wagon, paid $800 has 166K (was "supposedly" rebuilt motor and tranny 20K ago) When I bought it the guy said it needed tires badly and drove very messed up due to this. I arrived and all tires had good tread, one (rear) had a plug. Car drove like crap as expected, ran great, but jerked, wobble, and bounced. Took car in and had both front tires balanced, made a huge difference, car no longer jerked from side to side and vibration/wobble/bouncing was much much better, problem still not cured though. So I took it to a mechanic, they replaced both front cv axles and it didn't change a thing. They stated they looked over brakes, rotors, hubs, ect and found no problems. The problem seems to be coming more from the passenger side or middle. When driving the car it has a "bounce" type "vibration" (?thump?) that is consistent with the wheel spin, like at the same velocity of the tire, like something happens once per rotation of the tire. It feels like a separated tire on the front passenger, but I had them checked and also switched them out with some others I bought just to make sure and no difference, still did it. I put the FWD fuse in and that didn't make any difference either, but I was able to jack up the front on stands and slowly run the car. This is where I noticed the front pass tire is not getting any power, its pretty much all on the driver side (I could stop the pass tire with my hand). So I'm guessing something in the diff is messed up, but what would go wrong inside the diff to cause this? Also when the front was on stands and it was in drive I could NOT hear, feel, or see any vibrating thump... Any and all help is greatly appreciated! EDIT: also this thumping occurs starting at about 10mph all the way up to 45 (won't drive it over that), it also doesn't matter weather your on the gas or off, straight or turned, its a very consistent thumping...