Shaking? Its trying to kill me!
Submitted: Saturday, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:18
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DocTheBiker
I know we've delt with the steering shake before, but I think think this is diferent so please bare with me
I recently purchased a 91 swb 3ltr petrol which was fitted with wide road wheels, and it came with the originals.
I re-fitted the originals as the wides needed a couple of tyres (or 4) but the original all have very good tread. I then fitted my hand clutch (being a leg short) and took her out.
All was
well until a guy pulled out of a side road on me as I was at 45mph, so I moved into r/hand lane but so did he causing me to break hard. Thats when the steering wheel started to try and shake itself out of my hands.
15
miles further on as I traversed a left hand bend at 50ish she hit a pot hole and off she went again, not stopping shaking until I get her down to 15mph.
It transpired that the steering damper was US and had pulled on its top braket breaking two of the 3 welds.
With her all fixed up by MR 4x4 the problem seemed fixed, so fully loaded (even on the cab rack) I drove her 450miles from the UK and through France.
I hit a couple of bumps on the M/roads on left handers at about 65mph where I felt the slightest twitch, as if the damper was catching it, but the jurney transpired without a hitch.
Heading down the road this afternoon however (with the load off another bump on a left hander set her into "terrier with a rat" mode even though the repair is still holding good. I belive this problem might be what knackered the bracket and the damper in the first place.
I've seen some talk of wheel balance here, but this isn't a constant problem that I can feel comming on as I aproach the unbalenced speed, but rather near total loss of control provoked by forces impacting something on the front offside wheel/
suspension from that quarter.
Any help,advice, pointers you guys can give me will be very much apreciated.
Thankyou
Doc
PS. Are there any real gains to running her on 10" wide rubber over the standard tyres when offroad?