Emergency Braking

[LVMarauder]

I had to do an Emergency stop las night in my recently lowered and un-aligned marauder and noticed some BAD bouncing up front, felt like a wood roller coaster. Any ideas?

[NOTMYBOAT]

no, but i had some alignment problems too

clark

[Mongoose]

Could it have been either the ABS and/or warped rotors contributing to the bouncing? Did you feel it in the steering wheel or brake pedal?

[SergntMac]

Under hard braking, ABS simulates "pumping the brakes" if slidding is detected. This may cause some vibration to telegraph through the steering column/wheel, and the brake pedal too.

ABS is not related to alignment, good or bad, there should be no affect, unless something in the front suspension came lose. But I think you would know that anyway.

Warped rotors are permanent, you'll feel it every time you apply brakes, emergency stop or not.

[merc406]

I had that happen on one of my cars after I cut the frt springs alittle too much. Try shorter shocks.

[woaface]

Last time I had to stop in a hurry at the tail end of the stop just as the tires were skidding I heard something in either the rear left or front left side of the suspension and then the brake pedal felt like it lost a bolt or something...Felt really weird. The fronts get a little jiggly at the end of most harder stops usually.