How things evolved.
Hello everybody,
After reading your replies I realized that the shaft was no an issue. That repair had been successful, the clunking noise when turning was gone, but additional clunking noises and vibration persisted while breaking or going through bumps.
Then, I observed small backward movement on the passenger tire when taking off or braking as well as the engine will tilt back. I had not idea what to do next, so the advice of this forum helped me to decide on what was to be next. I already had changed the lower ball joints (at least one was bad), outer tie rods and had put new brake pads. I continued changing lower control arm bushings and Engine Mountains which must has helped with the tire movement and engine as I could see a little improvement, but retrospectively I don't think this was too bad at all. However the rumbling, vibrating, and clunky noises persisted and worsening when braking, even worse when stopping at higher speeds. I when back to research again this forum and read previous recommendations. I was about to proceed to change the subframe bushings when I read about warp rotor and calipers pins, etc and immediately it became a suspect. I got 2 new rotors for $50 and also put new calipers pins. And all issues when away like magic. See, last summer I put new pads and rotors! How is that the rotors were bad? But after the fact, re-inspecting the rotor I saw some radial lines that look more like stains, I can’t feel a thing in the surface, but appear to be cracks! That was it! Warp rotors!
The car is running very smooth, like new, Hum…If I would have just changed or resurface the rotors as recommended when I put pads! I wanted cheap but end costing me more. Oh well, it is a good lesson and just want to share this story with you and to thank you. Thanks God for this forum.
Ariam.