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| SirAndy |
  Mar 25 2013, 02:25 PM
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Resident German  Group: Admin Posts: 41,944 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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| gothspeed |
Mar 25 2013, 02:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,539 Joined: 3-February 09 From: SoCal Member No.: 10,019 Region Association: None |
Good info! thanks for posting.
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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 |
Mar 25 2013, 03:26 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,944 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(biosurfer1 @ Mar 25 2013, 01:53 PM) QUOTE(SirAndy @ Mar 25 2013, 01:25 PM) Smooth like butter up to 120 ... All theoretical of course....you would ever speed on public roads, right? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/evilgrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)(IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) Private road down at the shoreline park. Straight, 2 miles, nice surface, nothing but birds and bugs, no cars or pedestrians. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) |
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| Kaduku |
Mar 25 2013, 03:54 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 344 Joined: 1-January 13 From: SF Bay Area Member No.: 15,324 Region Association: None |
QUOTE Private road down at the shoreline park. Straight, 2 miles, nice surface, nothing but birds and bugs, no cars or pedestrians. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) So you did kill some birds and bugs! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) |
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| pcar916 |
Mar 25 2013, 04:03 PM
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Is that a Lola? Group: Members Posts: 1,523 Joined: 2-June 05 From: Little Rock, AR Member No.: 4,188 Region Association: None 
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Weird files... but I had a 65-68 mph vibration. Discovered that if I tightened up my wheel bearings just a bit it went away. They'd loosened a little and I hadn't inspected them again. Shame on me, but I can't be the only one it happened to.
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| SirAndy |
Mar 25 2013, 08:06 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,944 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(SirAndy @ Mar 25 2013, 01:25 PM) I cleaned all surfaces, put it all back together, made sure there was no wobble The car felt really good on the drive home. 20+ miles and no vibration. Now, on to getting the alignment right ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif) |
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| tomeric914 |
Mar 26 2013, 08:43 AM
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One Lap of America in a 914! Group: Members Posts: 1,263 Joined: 25-May 08 From: Syracuse, NY Member No.: 9,101 Region Association: North East States
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I need to get rid of my FLAPS 1/4" generic spacers. I have to mark the wheels so that they are installed exactly the same way every time or else I get a vibration. The last time I bolted them up, I got them exactly right and have no vibration whatsoever.
This after tightening the front wheel bearings farther than I think necessary, so I know it has to be the spacers. I about (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif) when I saw the price for the new Brey-Krause hubcentric spacers. $250 for 7mm? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) |
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