Steering wobble

I would like to pass on a wee bit of info to you all.

I was having difficulty with a steering wobble @ 50mph and went down the usual route of wheel balance ,kingpins etc.

I found the issue was a build of of aluminium oxide on the face of the wheel as it fits to the hub. the problem was gone until I changed the pads and refitted the wheels. I did not mark them before removal (who does) and only when i removed them again was the problem apparent.

quick going over with 80 grit and some copper slip to minimise a repeat and bingo!

worth checking when alloy wheels are off.

colin

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: Glad I read this last week!!!!!!!!!!!

I've had the Death Wobble for a long time like you do, I bought the Shims to try off Martin, but there still here, not got around to it. :huh:

Done what you suggested with the wheels and took it for a drive and the DW did'nt come, thought any minute now but it did'nt come at all.

So try cleaning the mating faces up, also I blew all my tyres up to 25lbs just to try, so no DW , yes pleased so far.

Thanks for posting, I would'nt of thought of it

Andy

Glad to be of assistance.

Alloy wheels and steel surfaces do not like each other. Since this I have changed the disks and pads on my shogun and done the same with all front alloy wheel surfaces and it drives better now as well.

ATB

Colin

I'm going to give this a try as since fitting my wider offset wheels my steering wobble is really bad between 30mph - 40mph . Failing that, have many people successfully cured their wheel wobble by replacing the wheel & kingpin bearings?

mine was cured by getting the disks machined and a wheel balenced

JimBru wrote: mine was cured by getting the disks machined and a wheel balenced

What does getting the discs machined involve? Did your wheels only wobble when applying the brakes?

Adamski wrote:

JimBru wrote: mine was cured by getting the disks machined and a wheel balenced

What does getting the discs machined involve? Did your wheels only wobble when applying the brakes?

it seemed to make the wobble a lost worse when braking, I had the front stripped down any way so thought it would be rude not to do it.

I basically gave them to the bloke at work who works in the machine shop, he stuck them on the lathe and straightened up all the faces (not sure waht the technical term is ), he did say one was quite warped think he took about 1mm off??

Was worth a try for free

Technical Term here .... you had the discs skimmed

I replaced my discs and pads. it improved things a lot, but I think I need to get the wheels balanced too

This goes back to getting the wheels balanced on the car. You just have to mark the wheel and a stud to make sure you put it back on in the same place. If you can find somewhere to do it now.

Kirkynut

ooky_123 wrote: Technical Term here .... you had the discs skimmed

I replaced my discs and pads. it improved things a lot, but I think I need to get the wheels balanced too

thats the phrase, i had brain freeze lol