Good morning Mike, and while I'm not expert, I thought I might throw out
this as a possibility. Dick and others will correct me if I'm not on
the straight and narrow.
It is my understanding, and my experience, that your wheels can be
balanced, BUT the steel wheels themselves can have a wobble to them.
I'm searching for the correct term, but like a warped rotor which has
too much runout, the steel wheels can have the same issue.
The solution can be a bit expensive of course - Panasports. I haven't
gone that route yet, but the difference in ride quality if immense.
I'd check with the tire store that you have balancing your wheels and
ask them is the wheels are straight or true. Let us know.
Cheers,
R. Ashford Little II
www.geocities.com/ralittle2
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From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of DaCRANEz@aol.com
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:44 AM
To: 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: vibration situation
There have been some recent postings about vibration problems at 65mph
or
thereabouts. I've been fighting this problem since I purchased my 6
about a year
ago. To date I have replaced the tires, rebuilt the front
suspension-including new shocks, replaced the rotors, installed a tube
shock kit on the rear,
replaced the half shaft u-joints as well as one of the half shafts that
had some
play in the splines. I have balanced and rebalanced the tires-even
checked the
balance with the trim rings on as suggested by Dick Taylor. I took her
out
today for a 300 mile road trip. Still shakes. There is no slop in the
front
wheel bearings. Oh I almost forgot-front and rear springs were replaced
and
urethane bushings were used in the suspension rebuild. There was a
little play
in the left trunnion. I didn't replace it-could that be a problem?
There is
some lateral runout on two of the stock wheels. They balance out fine
on my
spin balancer but is a TR critical about the wheels being near perfect?
My experience tells me that a high speed vibration has to be caused by a
rotating mass. Anybody out there got any ideas?
Thanks in advance Mike C '71 TR6
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