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Date:         Mon, 27 Sep 2004 00:54:48 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Re: steering feedback
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My Corolla's vibration is not really evident at 40mph, but at 60 is at its strongest, thouh it is present well beyond that speed. It is annoying, but not enough to make me avoid those speeds. It comes through the wheel and body, not the brake pedal.

Yours is not: loose wheelnuts loose studs loose/worn wheelbearing warped disc BenT wheel out-of-balance wheel or tire damaged tire camber or caster (maladjustment wouldn't do this)

Could it be your: Balljoint? Possibly a radius-rod/steering-rack balljoint? I've never heard of this being a cause, but if these develop a harmonic it might just possibly cause a pulsation. Stiction, with or without wear, in the steering rack? Worn suspension-arm bush?

It SOUNDS like the wheel is ot lonitudinally fixed, and so is rocking back & forth (left-right). Can you drive it while someone looks out a window at the wheel to see if there is visible movement, and if so, in what direction/plane?

Sounds like I should be trying these things out myself... -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toota van nut


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