I would too.
Back in grad school, I was driving my brothers Alfa
GTV6 from Kansas to San Diego. Heading into Albuquerque,
there was grooved highway, and I got this harmonic from
the tires.
When the grooves stopped, the tires didn't. I pulled off
and found 2 lugs had broken off one of the tires. I was
packed so tight, I couldn't get the tools out. So I
went to a Firestone, and they checked but didn't have
lugs for the car. They hand tightened the lugs for me and
told me of the one place that might have it. A junk yard
on the West side of town. No luck.
I drove on to San Diego, with no problems. But when I got
there, I went to the dealer. They didn't have lugs either.
The special ordered them, and I put them in a week or so
later.
While running 3 lugs, I didn't do any high speed maneuvers.
Paul.
Paul Hunt wrote:
> Well he did say it was hard to steer ...
>
> I'd replace all eight of those bolts now as only using two each side could
> well have overstressed them.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Pokrefke" <pokrefke1@comcast.net>
> To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 3:24 AM
> Subject: Re: No Steering
>
>
>
>>Holy excrement, are you saying the front shock absorber had no bolts
>>holding it in place? What was keeping the wheel vertical???
>
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