So i just finished bagging my 05 cobalt sedan and well my cv axles went to hell, now i know thats gonna happen but is there any way to stop the axles from binding so much?

any help is appreciated

 

Forgot to add it's a 2.2L auto

 

i dont have any problems with mine and ive been bagged for a while now.

 

thats weird because mine bind up like crazy. Whats your ride height? My ride height is about an inch higher then this

 

I thought the whole point of bags was to raise the car to a non-damaging height for driving and then slam it when parked for shows and such? Maybe raise the car a little more to save the axles.

Are you using rotated mounts? They help offset a little bit of lowering but not enough to help in an extreme case like a bagged car.

 

For most that may be lol but for me i have always had bagged trucks that i drive low and well i will with this and no i dont have the rotated mounts, i couldn't find em. And im just gonna get the axles with the life time warranty like my friend has, he just breaks one and then goes and gets a new one free.

 

Yeah I would suggest the rotated mounts as that will buy you a little more angle than stock ones, which might let the cheapo axles live a little longer.

Those aftermarket axles don't like huge angles as much as the stockers, so they will usually last even less time.

 

yeah i read somewhere the aftermarket ones arent worth getting for the height im at. Ill look into rotated mounts as well thanks

 

yeah i would ride it another inch higher. if you wanted to ride that low you shoulda bought coils they are alot stiffer than bags

 

More I look at my axles I'm.thinking they were going bad before I bagged the car. I just had a derp moment and didn't check them then

 

i mean my lowest drive height setting is pretty low and i still dont get axle bind

 

I could be wrong but I didn't think rotated mounts work with auto's?

 

Well i found one issue and it's a bad wheel bearing so that's being replaced