Shaking at speed
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Forgive the pithy nature of my original inquiry, I was at work and pressed for time. I think you may be right GT, I suspect a tire even though I had them balanced yesterday. Even though the tread is quite good it may be a separated ply starting to go. It's fine until about 62mph and by 70mph it is at its worst. It seems to lessen after 70mph but I need to double-check this. Even though I paid for balancing already I may have to bite the bullet and have it checked again by a different technician. Damn.
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This seems to be the most likely thing to me as well. So didn't the guy who balanced my tires yesterday notice this? I do wonder. Like I said earlier it may be that a ply is separating and it just isn't visible yet. The shake is rather noticible as my rear view mirror vibrates intensely and your right foot can really feel the shake near the accelerator pedal. Either a front rim or tire is out of whack.
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I'm coming back to this finally after much investigation and diagnosis. The lower ball joints have already been replaced so the big job now is to replace the control arm bushings which are loose on the passenger side and probably not too far behind on the other. While the wheels are off I'm replacing the front rotors with drilled, vented and slotted ones along with ceramic pads. The shaking should be remedied by the new bushings and that rotational unevenness in the brakes should be eliminated while I'm at it. I plan to do this on Monday morning so wish me luck.
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Check the inner tie rods with everything apart. They are very easy to swap out, and if you do one side at a time, its very easy to realign the car with string and adjust/test drive until the steering wheel was perfectly straight.
My inners allowed for a lot of uncontrolled wheel movement that could potentially drive steering wheel movement.
My inners allowed for a lot of uncontrolled wheel movement that could potentially drive steering wheel movement.
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OK guys, I'm having difficulty with the big long bolt that holds the upper A-arm. The nut at the south end came off as planned but the bolt itself won't budge at all even with the nut removed and with me attempting to unscrew it from the front with a very long wrench attached to a pipe for extra leverage. The bolt should be free to rotate with the bushing but it doesn't move at all. Even with the pipe extension it wouldn't move a bit. I sprayed some penetrating oil all over it and called it a night. Any suggestions?
P.S. I've seen other posts about this here at the forums and the standard operating procedure seems to be to use as must penetrating oil as possible and keep trying to get it to move. Onward.
P.S. I've seen other posts about this here at the forums and the standard operating procedure seems to be to use as must penetrating oil as possible and keep trying to get it to move. Onward.
Last edited by Americain; 09-25-2016 at 08:54 PM.
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