On my 91 prelude when I am doing about 50 the car is fine, soon as it gets to about 60 it has an intermitent (spelling?) shake, i dont know exactly how to explain it. It shakes as if you are running over those little speed bump things (the ones that are like 6 lined in a row) then stops, then does it then stops. What could cause that?

 

Wheels loose?

 

Start with checking your tire psi, than go get them balanced.

 

checked tire pressure and lugnuts, both are fine, would alignment cause this? my car pulls to the right some

 

Well the car pulling to the right is a bad alignment, but are all tire pressures to 32 psi? mnf specs? The steering wheel vibrating means that you need your tires balanced, but the alignment wouldn't cause that.

 

well it needs new tires anyway so ill just wait. i might have someone wanting to buy the car as well so we will see

 

if you checked your psi and your lugnuts, then I would check the balance of the wheels.

but if you're getting new tires, just wait until then.

 

I talked to a shop today and asked if a bad axle could do the same thing and they said it can. I know the outter boot on the driver side is torn so I am just going to replace it anyway and see how that works.

 

Or maybe bad tie rods?

 

do u have aftermarket rims??? If so did they come with essentric (spelling?) rings????

 

If balancing the tires doesn't work, maybe you need a front end alignment.

 

I had a similar problem on my car after putting my 16" slipstreams and new tires on. They were brand new balanced tires and brand new rims. I was told by JLB Motorsports(where I got my tires/rims) that most hondas are lugcentric so that hubcentric rings were not required. I tried rotating the tires, alignment, and everything. What ended up fixing it for me was reducing the torque on the lugs by about 5 ftlbs. I was putting them at 80-82 as thats what I was told here on h-t. May have been just a coincidence but thats what got rid on my vibration.

 

stock rims. i am going to try replacing the axle next week maybe

 

Is the vibration coinciding with getting on or off the throttle? I had exactly the same problem, and it was down to a knackered INNER CV joint.

 

its fine at 55mph, at 60-75 it starts, then at 80 goes away, when i slow from 80 it shakes worse then when it does while im accelerating. im pretty sure its the outter cv joint since the boot is ripped.

 

A CV joint would have to be in VERY bad shape to cause vibration like that at speed. 90% chance it's an unbalanced wheel/tire causing the vibration - but you should still do something about the ripped boot.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by FadeToBlack &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I was told by JLB Motorsports(where I got my tires/rims) that most hondas are lugcentric so that hubcentric rings were not required.</TD></TR></TABLE>
They're wrong . . . Honda's are all hubcentric.

It is possible to center your wheels properly without hub rings (i.e. hub adapters), but it's just as possible for them to be centered improperly, which causes vibration. Can eventually ruin wheel bearings as well.

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80 ft/lbs. is the proper setting - what probably happened is that by loosening and retightening your lugs, it shifted the wheel to be centered better on the hub.

 

Yeah like I said, it was probably more a coincidence than anything else. Looks like I should grab a set of hubcentric rings... Not sure why reseating the lugs that time worked, since that was the 514 millionth time I loosened and tightened the lugs/swapped wheels/etc...