That's the first thing I thought...
Chad Cooper
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From: mgs-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:mgs-bounces@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Max Heim
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:30 PM
To: MG List
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Non Healey/MG question
Doubt that you can check the fluid level in Macpherson struts... <g>.
[Honda minivan]
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 7/7/09 1:45 PM, Bob Howard at mgbob@juno.com wrote:
> One thing you can check yourself is that the wheels are round.
> Reassured that their mounting and balancing of new tires was accurate
> initially, and that their checking revealed no inbalance, and that the
> tires were OK, etc etc, the source of my mysterious vibration was that
> two of the wheels were bent, probably by the tire installers, as there
> had been no vibration with the old tires. Vibration was evident in the
> steering wheel even when all wheels had been tried in all positions.
> Raise the tire off the ground. Holding a pencil braced on a block,
> turn the wheel slowly and check for out of plane and out of round, on
> both inner and outer sections of the rim. Mine had been bent inward on
> the inner rim.
> Another thing to check is fluid level in the dampers. It could be that
> a wheel would bounce a little even though the bumper-bounce test seems to
> be OK.
> Bob
>
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:17:27 -0700 "Ron Fine" <RonFineEsq@earthlink.net>
> writes:
>> I have a 2003 Honda Minivan with a front end issue. Any idea as to
>> what might
>> be causing it would be greatly appreciated:
>>
>> I get a vibration or shimmy (left/right) through the steering wheel
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