I NEED THE EXPERTS HELP ON THIS ONE (longish, sorry)
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I NEED THE EXPERTS HELP ON THIS ONE (longish, sorry)
I have mentioned before that my steering wheel keeps shaking/vibrating when I drive 55mph.
My mechanic checked everything under the car and it seems to be in great shape. I balanced my tires couple days ago, but the problem remains.
I am thinking to do the allignment and "on car" balance.
My mech says it could be the power steering pump, since e checked everything else and changed the PS fluid.
Some of you guys said it could be a bend wheel but I never hit no pot hole and I dont have a scratch on my rims.
I dont want to pay $500+ for pump and work and then its not the problem.
ANY ideas guys????
TIA
My mechanic checked everything under the car and it seems to be in great shape. I balanced my tires couple days ago, but the problem remains.
I am thinking to do the allignment and "on car" balance.
My mech says it could be the power steering pump, since e checked everything else and changed the PS fluid.
Some of you guys said it could be a bend wheel but I never hit no pot hole and I dont have a scratch on my rims.
I dont want to pay $500+ for pump and work and then its not the problem.
ANY ideas guys????
TIA
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I have a 1980 TR-8 that had a vibration that just wouldn't go away.
I won't go into all the things I tried before I figured it out but it turned out that the tires/wheels were out of round. We always assume that our wheels and tires are perfectly round when they come from the factory but that is not the always the case. I would suspect that most decent wheels are relatively round but cheap aftermarket wheels could be suspect. In my case the problem was a set of BF Goodrich Comp TAs that were about 1/8 inch out of round. THe solution was to go to a truck tire shop that had a machine for shaving tires. They rotated the tires on the car while this cutting tool shaved of the excess rubber from part of the tire. It was painfull to watch 1/3 of my expensive tires turned into little pieces of scrap on the floor but it worked. You could see the thicker portion of the tire as the cutter got close and then started to cut the high section.
I have never had this problem since on the triumph or any other car but it was a big enough problem on trucks (at least 10-15 years ago) that shaving machines were fairly common. I don't know if you could find someone to do this today but don't assume that your wheels and tires are perfect simply because you can't think of how they could have been damaged. By the way those wheels on your car look aftermarket to me, are they?
I have never had this problem since on the triumph or any other car but it was a big enough problem on trucks (at least 10-15 years ago) that shaving machines were fairly common. I don't know if you could find someone to do this today but don't assume that your wheels and tires are perfect simply because you can't think of how they could have been damaged. By the way those wheels on your car look aftermarket to me, are they?
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