Re: alfa-digest V7 #118

[GLewis4457@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/21/98 2:33:18 PM Central Daylight Time, owner-alfa-
digest@domain.elided writes:

<< Catching up on the digests, Alan Lambert wrote:
 
 <Well, guys ( and gal or two) I've joined the parade. My '91 164L's 
 steering vibrates. The wheels have been balanced, rotated and rebalanced, 
 but the vibration remains. Could worn CV joints have any effect?--Mine 
 has 108K miles on it--what kind of mileage do the other "vibratees" cars 
 have on them?>
 
 My LS has done 64,000. Done the balance (on and off car ), done the rotation
 - - minor improvement, awaiting replacement of the shock absorber on the
 guilty wheel. I don't subscribe to the flatspot theory. Mines better with
 cold tyres after standing all night! >>

	On Motor Week (PBS Station) Pat Goss the mechanic wizard announced that some
manufacturors are now "mandating" that rotors be ground "on the car", just
like the on vehicle tire balancing.  Apparently the old lathe method of
turning a rotor is no longer accurate enough.  He showed a machine that is
designed just for this purpose.  Don't know if this is a solution for the 164
vibration problems, but it is another place to look.

Jerry in Houston

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