Little by little everything seems to be going out on my 10,000 year old 94 prelude. I feel within a year everything in the engine bay will have been replaced and I should get some sort of blue print certificate to show for it! lol.

Anyways rant over.

So this past weekend I replaced some extreamly bad rotors / pads and master cylinder, balanced my tires and put everything back together. Now when driving above 60-65mph i get a slight shimmy in the wheel. Its almost as it comes and goes but still present most of the time. I am boggled for what the problem may be as I eliminated most of the reasons that it should be doing this.

Tread and tires should be good, balance is good, no warp in rotor now, and what gets me is it was not doing this before hand only when I went to put the brakes on from highway speeds due to the old rotors.

What my initial thought was that banging the old rotors off with a hammer somehow threw my allignment off (which btw was done about a month prior to this) but after taking it to firestone to abuse my lifetime allignment contract they told me that highway speed shimmies are not caused by tires out of allignment (which also baffled me cause everyone says it does). So I am stumped.

Was it possible that I knocked my allignment out of wack after banging on my rotors to loosen them from the hub and is it also possible that firestone had no idea what they were talking about?

Hopefully someone can give me some insight before I end up just replacing everything in the front suspension.

 

how are your wheel bearings

 

I'd start with re-balancing the wheels. The bearings are easy to figure out, lift the car up, if the balljoint for the outer tie rod is in good shape but there is play/jiggle in the wheel then the bearing is shot. I doubt you bent a suspension piece from beating the rotors to get them to let go of the hub, takes more than that.

 

I would put my money on the tires