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Re: How to Tell If Your Shocks Need Overhauling?

To: "Ned Smith" <smithn00@kitepilot.net>
Subject: Re: How to Tell If Your Shocks Need Overhauling?
From: "Alan Seigrist Blue 100" <healey.nut@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:42:23 +0800
Ned -

Have someone drive along side you on the freeway and if your car gets
twitchy somewhere around say 50-70 mph, if they see one of the front wheels
bouncing up and down on the road, that means your shocks are shot.

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8


On 9/5/06, Ned Smith <smithn00@kitepilot.net> wrote:
>
> I stood on the rear bumper and flexed my knees. The BJ8 moved once and
> then
> had a series of after-jiggles of very small amplitude and duration. On the
> back roads, under 50 MPH, the car handles well. On the Interstate and 70,
> it
> gets a little twitchy. I think. It may be the trucks blowing me around.
>
>
>
> Ned Smith
>
> BJ8
>
> near Chattanooga, TN
>
> N34.98 W85.5




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