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Re: Shaking Steering

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Subject: Re: Shaking Steering
From: "Theo Neeskens" <theonees@worldonline.nl>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 23:26:30 +0200
Reply-to: "Theo Neeskens" <theonees@worldonline.nl>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
Hi,

In my 63 Midget it was the propshaft. Try and fell if the gearlever is
vibrating too.
I've got an exchange propshaft now and it is much better.
Not perfect though, I think I will have it balanced in the winter.

Theo Neeskens
63 Midget Mk1a
99 Lancia Delta HPE

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> From: Greg Mahney <mahney@central.murdoch.edu.au>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Shaking Steering
> Date: dinsdag 10 augustus 1999 11:02
> 
> Would any one care to offer a diagnosis on the basis of this info... (or
at
> least a priority order for checking things).
> 
> Every time aI drive my 1963 sprite and reach certain specific speeds eg
24
> mph, 46 mph, I feel a stong vibration through the steering wheel, like
I've
> run over a particularly rough bit of road.  When I'm not at those speeds
it
> is fine.
> 
> I'm sure it isn't wheel balance, as I've had them recently balanced and
the
> rears and fronts swapped, and the symptoms are identical.  The rest of
the
> suspension is anyone's guess - I've certainly never touched it.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 

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