bad shimmy in steering
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bad shimmy in steering
i kinda fixed this but i still want to know what is causing it. when you go down the road, every once and a while it will start to shake the steering wheel, then it breaks out into a really violent shimmy. you still go straight, and if you apply the brakes it will take it out if you drop below 30 mph. the car did it before i took it off the road but not to often, then it sat 10 months waiting for a new engine, then it started to do it every 5 mins while driving. i replaced the idler arm and front struts. that did nothing. i decided to tighten the steering box and it worked unless you go over 40 mph then you can feel it wanting to go. please help me if you can
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Car: 86 LG4 & 92 TBI Firebird
Engine: The Mighty 305!
Transmission: 700R4
Axle/Gears: 3.42
Your wheels could need rebalancing or your tires may have gotten out of round sitting around for a while.
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-Justin-
T-Top '86 5.0L LG4 700R4 WS6 Now Bilstein equipped!
T-Top '92 5.0L TBI 700R4
My '86 Firebird Homepage
The F-body Model Kit Pictoral Archive (updated 9/18/00)
There can be only one!!
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