I posted not too long ago about my front end shaking pretty good at 55mph (not dw). Well I decided to rotate my tires yesterday and voila! party1: The shake is completely gone away. So im guessing that one of the front tires either has a bent rim, or unbalanced. And now that there on the rear it dosnt show up. Just thought I would share this so if anyone has the same problem...rotate those tires first. It may just save you some time/money.
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Update on my 55mph shimmy:
- Thread starter HMGanja
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TheAlmightySam
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- Portland, OR
I had a similar problem, but none of the tires were out of balance and none of the wheels were out-of-round. It turns out that someone had put the wheels on with an impact gun, and not gotten the wheel perfectly centered. The wobble showed up at exactly 55mph.
Yup, I suffer this when I rotated the BFG's at 5k miles. Does it at 55, which I have used as a speed warning on most of the 45mph county roads I use.
I loosened the lugs and retightened, but no change, crawled under with a pry bar and checked every bushing and joint, greased it, and still the bladabladablada . . .
So I'm waiting for the next rotation, and I will check carefully for a good mount up. BTW, I'm using Liberty 16" steel rims taken off at a dealer - AFAIK, I'm the only one to put miles on them - so I don't think it's unknown damage. I do use an (underpowered) impact gun, but tighten with a click torque wrench in the star pattern to spec (110 ft pounds.)
I loosened the lugs and retightened, but no change, crawled under with a pry bar and checked every bushing and joint, greased it, and still the bladabladablada . . .
So I'm waiting for the next rotation, and I will check carefully for a good mount up. BTW, I'm using Liberty 16" steel rims taken off at a dealer - AFAIK, I'm the only one to put miles on them - so I don't think it's unknown damage. I do use an (underpowered) impact gun, but tighten with a click torque wrench in the star pattern to spec (110 ft pounds.)
TheAlmightySam
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Portland, OR
HMGanja said:
It was pretty strange - I got it up on the lift at work and spun the wheel, and if you looked closely, you could see it was kicked off to one side.
This is why I always use an X-wrench to put my lugs on. Yeah, it's slower than an impact, but I trust it more.
