"Am I just lucky?"
Who knows. The topic can provoke endless discussions. More seem to
complain about it than don't complain. It may have to do with the
solidity of the underlying structure. Or maybe some folks are just more
sensitive to it.
Dave Russell
BN2
davidwjones wrote:
> I'm always amazed when we get one of these outbreaks of scuttle shake
> discussions, and the lengths to which so many people have to go to
> eliminate it. The first ten years that I owned and drove my BT7, it
> wore various worn and mismatched tires, old used wire wheels, two of
> which stripped and were replaced by other used wheels, totally worn
> out lever shocks, cracked and sometimes missing front end bushes, and
> god knows how long it had been since a front end rebuild, and rear
> drums that I had never touched. -Anytime a wheel or tire was replaced
> it was simply static balanced. ---and in all of that time, if there
> was any shake or shimmy, it was very mild, and only occurred over
> 80-85 mph. Since then, everything is new. Completely rebuilt restored
> front end, all new tires and wheels, new drums (not balanced), and
> rebuilt restored shocks. Michelin tall profile tires, bought from
> Hendrix, but mounted and static balanced locally. -Naturally the car
> rides and handles better, -but even with all of the new gear, with no
> special measures taken, ---no shake up through 80 mph. The only other
> pertinent point I can think of is that while I did have to replace
> one outrigger for a small hole, and the sills on one side and
> rockers, the frame itself was extremely straight and solid. If
> scuttle shake were inherent in the design of the car, unless special
> measures were taken, -I would think that I'd have had it. Even if I
> were lucky, I would expect that some of the combinations I've had on
> the car would have produced shake... It makes me wonder what
> percentage of these cars seem to exhibit this sensitivity to factors
> which can cause scuttle shake. -It would appear that not all of them
> are prone to it. Dave Jones.
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