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| SirAndy |
  Mar 25 2013, 02:25 PM
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Resident German  Group: Admin Posts: 41,945 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California  |
If you recently had a wheel (or two) off your frontend and you experience a vibration in the steering afterwards, chances are, you caught some dirty between the wheel and the hub.
This is even more likely if you're running one or more spacers. McMark dropped my car off at my house last night (now *that* is customer service! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif) ) and reported a shaky frontend at freeway speeds. So today during lunch break i took the front wheels off and found that the second spacer on the drivers side was wobbling by a good mm left to right. I cleaned all surfaces, put it all back together, made sure there was no wobble and voila: Smooth like butter up to 120 ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) |
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| biosurfer1 |
Mar 25 2013, 02:53 PM
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Teener fo Life! Group: Members Posts: 3,020 Joined: 3-August 03 From: Roseville, CA Member No.: 977 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(SirAndy @ Mar 25 2013, 01:25 PM)  Smooth like butter up to 120 ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) All theoretical of course....you would ever speed on public roads, right? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/evilgrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) |
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SirAndy Front end vibration at speed ... Mar 25 2013, 02:25 PM
gothspeed Good info! thanks for posting. Mar 25 2013, 02:50 PM
SirAndy Smooth like butter up to 120 ...
:driving: :Qar... Mar 25 2013, 03:26 PM Kaduku
So you did kill some birds and bugs! :head... Mar 25 2013, 03:54 PM pcar916 Weird files... but I had a 65-68 mph vibration. Di... Mar 25 2013, 04:03 PM SirAndy I cleaned all surfaces, put it all back together, ... Mar 25 2013, 08:06 PM tomeric914 I need to get rid of my FLAPS 1/4" generic sp... Mar 26 2013, 08:43 AM |
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