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RE: Shaking Steering

To: "'Greg Mahney'" <mahney@central.murdoch.edu.au>, "spridgets@autox.team.net" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Shaking Steering
From: Phil Vanner <philv@pclink.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 12:24:33 -0500
Organization: PowerTeam
Reply-to: Phil Vanner <philv@pclink.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
In addition to the other responses you've gotten on this one, badly worn front 
dampers can cause steering shake as well.

Phil Vanner

On Tuesday, August 10, 1999 4:02 AM, Greg Mahney 
[SMTP:mahney@central.murdoch.edu.au] wrote:
> Would any one care to offer a diagnosis on the basis of this info... (or at
> least a priority order for checking things).
>
> Every time aI drive my 1963 sprite and reach certain specific speeds eg 24
> mph, 46 mph, I feel a stong vibration through the steering wheel, like I've
> run over a particularly rough bit of road.  When I'm not at those speeds it
> is fine.
>
> I'm sure it isn't wheel balance, as I've had them recently balanced and the
> rears and fronts swapped, and the symptoms are identical.  The rest of the
> suspension is anyone's guess - I've certainly never touched it.
>
> Greg


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