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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: Rasbo on April 30, 2007, 18:58:25

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: Rasbo on April 30, 2007, 18:58:25

Hi, i'm getting quite alot of shaking through my steering wheel, especialy at speeds of more than 50mph. Checked the wheel bearings, fine. Checked tracking, as good as it gets.

Any Ideas please???


Oh, it has PAS too.

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: Wonka on April 30, 2007, 19:35:56

I have the same.  Next step I will check ball joints, swivel pre-loads and panhard rod bushes.

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: thepsychoman on April 30, 2007, 20:36:03

Might sound daft, but check your front prop. I had knackered UJs in the front that manifested themselves as a "death wobble" at about 40mph through the front end! Fixed the UJ and problem solved... worth a look?

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: Wonka on April 30, 2007, 20:55:27

Now that is strange - I never knew UJ's could manifest as death wobble.  Mine is already booked in to have the front UJ's done.

Any reason why this can manifest as death wobble? Intrigued :wink:

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: Jim-Willy on April 30, 2007, 20:56:05

Tyres balanced?  Mine shakes like hell wit the unbalanced, unevenly worn offroad tyres on.......

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: clbarclay on April 30, 2007, 21:22:11

Swivle bearings produce a V. bad wobble at speeds around 40 to 55 mph but above this range they don't wobble in my experiance. If you can drive at 60 fine then they are the most likely cause, though if 60 is same or worse still then best keep looking.

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: extreme90 on April 30, 2007, 21:54:03

ever thought about a knackered steering damper ?
u been offroading and not cleaned it yet ?
check for balance weights on the inside of the rim coming detatched, youll see the marks where they used to be, ive torn a few off and now given up on balancing my landy wheels, too much hassle and its a land rover anyway  :lol:

check the panhard bushes aswel, without engine running get some one to rock the steeringwheel whilst you look for any play

also as mentioned above, bearings and swivles

dan

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: thepsychoman on May 01, 2007, 18:40:34

Quote from: "Wonka"

Now that is strange - I never knew UJ's could manifest as death wobble.  Mine is already booked in to have the front UJ's done.

Any reason why this can manifest as death wobble? Intrigued :wink:

The only thing I can think of is that the prop being out of balance can create sufficient vibes to effect the front end. But I don't claim to be an engineer!  :oops:  Having said that, once I fixed my UJs the problem went away... so it has to be worth looking at, especially if your UJs are worn anyway.

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: Rasbo on May 01, 2007, 19:04:42

replaced the damper recently, have found a very slight leak on the power steering pump but cant see that causing it. Swivel bearings are good replaced last month. Any chance it could be one of the shims? UJ is good replaced a few months ago. Panhard bushes look pretty worn, so could be the prob, i'll replace them when i manage to fit my lift to it.

Thanks for the posts people

Andy

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: extreme90 on May 01, 2007, 22:43:52

now that the swivles have bedded in and slackend off they could possably do with a tweaking down on the thrust washer, just jack a wheel up and see if theres any play

if the panhard bush's are warn then i would say thats half your problem there  :lol:

dan

Title: Steering wheel wobble
Post by: jamesledingham on May 14, 2007, 13:38:47

UJ
Wheel Balancing
Spacers
Wheels on tightly enough? My alloys had to have a bit scraped out of the middle of them to make them fit on the spacers.


Also, my old old thread on the same question may help...

http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=34730&highlight=