DR1665
Well-known member
I'd really like to figure out what's causing this shiz...
Symptoms:
- car pulls to the left at all times
- at 65-75mph, serious shaking from RF corner, felt in steering wheel, can see it in the hood through the windshield. (!)
I tried re-torquing the lug nuts on both front wheels, but nothing changed.
I tried removing and re-installing the RF wheel. (!) I removed the lug nuts, but the wheel wouldn't come off. Even after smacking the tire side-to-side and top-to-bottom with a big hammer, the wheel wouldn't come off. (Say what?) Like an idiot, I lowered the car onto the wheels without the lug nuts snugged and the wheel popped free. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/uhh.gif
Oddly enough, every time I try to bolt up a wheel (any wheel) on that corner now, even though I held the wheel solidly in place as I snug the lug nuts down by hand, torquing each one results in the wheel working its way onto the hub. You know how you can usually hold the wheel in place, run one nut down snug (to keep it flat), then spin the others down all the way torque them? When I try this, it's like the wheel isn't sitting flush on the hub or something. As I spin each successive nut down with the impact, the wheel moves closer to the hub on that side. WTF.
I sanded the mating surfaces on the center of the wheel and hub. (For lack of proper terminology, I'm calling this the "hub-centric" surfaces, as this is obviously what centers the wheel on the hub as far as I can tell.) Might have been a minor improvement in vibration, but not enough to give me any confidence.
I swapped both fronts with another set of GVR4 wheels, but this time, the car pulled right and the shaking was just as bad.
I just swapped the LF/RF wheels (running a pair of directional Hankook R-S2s backwards). Now the car pulls right pretty much to the extent it had pulled left. The vibration seems much better, though it's still, clearly there.
Any ideas?
When I lowered the car onto the loose wheel, what are the chances I bent the hub or something? I've checked the wheel studs against the rotor with a straight edge and they all appear straight, but as much as my plan was to swap hubs between the rally car and the daily driver as a "sure thing" tonight, I really don't want to do all that if it's likely wheel related (which the recent improvement in vibration and pulling to the right seems to suggest).
Hell or high water, I'm driving the car to MOD in three weeks, but swapping hubs means a Saturday at the alignment shop, so I don't have a whole of time left. Appreciate any insights.
Thanks.
Symptoms:
- car pulls to the left at all times
- at 65-75mph, serious shaking from RF corner, felt in steering wheel, can see it in the hood through the windshield. (!)
I tried re-torquing the lug nuts on both front wheels, but nothing changed.
I tried removing and re-installing the RF wheel. (!) I removed the lug nuts, but the wheel wouldn't come off. Even after smacking the tire side-to-side and top-to-bottom with a big hammer, the wheel wouldn't come off. (Say what?) Like an idiot, I lowered the car onto the wheels without the lug nuts snugged and the wheel popped free. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/uhh.gif
Oddly enough, every time I try to bolt up a wheel (any wheel) on that corner now, even though I held the wheel solidly in place as I snug the lug nuts down by hand, torquing each one results in the wheel working its way onto the hub. You know how you can usually hold the wheel in place, run one nut down snug (to keep it flat), then spin the others down all the way torque them? When I try this, it's like the wheel isn't sitting flush on the hub or something. As I spin each successive nut down with the impact, the wheel moves closer to the hub on that side. WTF.
I sanded the mating surfaces on the center of the wheel and hub. (For lack of proper terminology, I'm calling this the "hub-centric" surfaces, as this is obviously what centers the wheel on the hub as far as I can tell.) Might have been a minor improvement in vibration, but not enough to give me any confidence.
I swapped both fronts with another set of GVR4 wheels, but this time, the car pulled right and the shaking was just as bad.
I just swapped the LF/RF wheels (running a pair of directional Hankook R-S2s backwards). Now the car pulls right pretty much to the extent it had pulled left. The vibration seems much better, though it's still, clearly there.
Any ideas?
When I lowered the car onto the loose wheel, what are the chances I bent the hub or something? I've checked the wheel studs against the rotor with a straight edge and they all appear straight, but as much as my plan was to swap hubs between the rally car and the daily driver as a "sure thing" tonight, I really don't want to do all that if it's likely wheel related (which the recent improvement in vibration and pulling to the right seems to suggest).
Hell or high water, I'm driving the car to MOD in three weeks, but swapping hubs means a Saturday at the alignment shop, so I don't have a whole of time left. Appreciate any insights.
Thanks.