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| TACK Member Since: 26 Apr 2009 Location: Essex Posts: 1045  
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The steering wheel has a fair bit of wobble at 50mph. Not 45mph or 60mph. Balancing, tracking all checked and ok, the vehicle is vibrating at this speed, what should I now check/look for
 
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14th Jul 2011 9:36pm |
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| Happyoldgit Member Since: 14 Sep 2007 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3471  
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Check the suspension, damper, shock absorber and panhard rod bushes. Hub bearings and swivel preload are worth a look at too. Steve.
Owned numerous Land Rover vehicles of all shapes and sizes over the decades. Current Defender: A non tarts hand-bagged Puma 110 XS USW. [Insert something impressive here such as extensive list of previous Land Rovers or examples of your prestigeous and expensive items, trinkets, houses, bikes, vehicles etc] http://forums.lr4x4.com I used to be Miserable ...but now I'm ecstatic. |
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14th Jul 2011 9:41pm |
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| Lorryman100 Member Since: 01 Oct 2010 Location: Here Posts: 2686 |
I had this with mine after fitting bigger tyres, checked all the stuff MG recommends with no faults found. So in desperation I changed the steering damper to a heavier duty one from OME and it fixed the wobble with only a slight vibration now at 50mph with the bigger tyres fitted. Point to note as well is that with 235/265's fitted I got no vibration/wobble at all.
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15th Jul 2011 8:41am |
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| Grockle Member Since: 24 Nov 2008 Location: Peak District National Park Posts: 2266 
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you could try swopping the wheels around 2.4 90 XS
1968 1/32 scale Britains 109 Pick up. |
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15th Jul 2011 9:11am |
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| robpenrose Member Since: 15 Jan 2011 Location: Hampshire or Cornwall Posts: 338
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get your balancing checked again. I had to take mine back a few time to get it re-balanced even though the machine said they were balanced.
After going through a load of weights, its finally good now. I think the Balancing machine didnt like the heavy BFG ATs Current:D4 HSE Gone: BMW Z4MC Gone: Defender TD5 90 CSW Previous: Discovery TD5 ES (Gone) |
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15th Jul 2011 9:47am |
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| JSG Member Since: 12 Jul 2007 Location: Berkshire Posts: 2412 
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It may be worth trying a different place to get them balanced. Years back I recall a mate saying he had to get his wheels balanced on the vehicle to solve a wobble. John
http://www.hampshire4x4response.co.uk 2011 Tdci 110 CSW XS |
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15th Jul 2011 9:49am |
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| Allan Member Since: 09 Sep 2009 Location: Perth Posts: 166  
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Same with minewhen fitted with 8x16and 265/75x16, changed them with the wifes 235's of her TD5 90 and all fixed. I have found the bigger tyre and rim combo on the 90 work fine, no wobble at all. For some reason the Puma didn't like the change. I tried steering damper change, 3 wheel balances and changed around the rim position but could not fix it. Allan |
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16th Jul 2011 12:24am |
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