My 90 Ef9 has a strange problem the steering wheel moves back and fourth at low speed but not at high speed any ideas?

 

if its a pretty violent shake, check your axles cv boots to see if they are torn up.

the axles just might be binding

 

Try getting your wheels balanced and a alignment.

 

Most of the time due to a out of balance wheel/tire you'll only feel it at high speeds, I agree with checking the axles, Both my axles are bad right now and I get that.......to me its obvious.....

Does it do it when your decelerating really fast?? moderatly? or accelerating/through turns??

or just all the time at say 35-40 miles an hour?

 

I have the same problem, and it will even shake at 10 mph and goes up to 80. When going slower, the shake will have more amplitude and less frequency. As the car speeds up, there is less amplitude, but alot higher frequency.

 

Give your front end a good shake down, could be bad control arms, tie rods and wheel bearings.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KasperFFTI &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Most of the time due to a out of balance wheel/tire you'll only feel it at high speeds, I agree with checking the axles, Both my axles are bad right now and I get that.......to me its obvious.....

Does it do it when your decelerating really fast?? moderatly? or accelerating/through turns??

or just all the time at say 35-40 miles an hour?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Dude, If the tire's are out of balance the steering wheel will shake at low speed's too.

Check for thrown wheel weight's, Broken cord in one of the tire's, Tie rod's...

 

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a problem like this is not an out of balance wheel. something is wrong, perhaps a blister on the tire or something else out of round, or bad axle, im not sure, but its not a simple unbalanced wheel. visually inspect each tire. a loose jamnut on the tierod end can also cause symptoms similar to an unbalanced wheel.

 

do a once over....check the rack n pinion too....

 

Ok I've ask my alignment guy at our shop this question. Theres a good chance its tire seperation. Its not your axles or rack and pinion or bad control arms, tie rods and wheel bearings.

Best thing to do is go get them balanced. And ask when they balance them to see if they are seperated/broken cords. If that is the case you would need tires to get rid of that.

Some people on this board have no idea and jsut guess at **** and its terrible. You will spend days and days looking if you follow them lol

 

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Yep but if you actually listen to the people that know there stuff, then it helps narrow the problem down. The main reason I said to get the tires balanced is because they would be able to tell you if something is wrong with the tire or rim.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by skelly ed6 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Ok I've ask my alignment guy at our shop this question. Theres a good chance its tire seperation. Its not your axles or rack and pinion or bad control arms, tie rods and wheel bearings.

Best thing to do is go get them balanced. And ask when they balance them to see if they are seperated/broken cords. If that is the case you would need tires to get rid of that.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks alot for looking into it The tires on there aren't the best, but are goodyears. I'm going to be getting Azenis for my 14 in steelies hopefully after tax return. If that doesn't work, I'll bring this one back from the dead

 

do you torque your lugnuts down to the proper lbs?

 

Yes I do. I'm religious about that.

 

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Yep but if you actually listen to the people that know there stuff, then it helps narrow the problem down. The main reason I said to get the tires balanced is because they would be able to tell you if something is wrong with the tire or rim.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Just what I said!

 

sorry if this is gonna sound really dumb...
buts why is that important? i mean why is torqueing your lugs at the proper lb so important. i thought as along as they are tight and not gonna come off they are good.????????? sounds stupid huh. sorry....

 

Bent Wheel or out of round tire. Jack that puppy up put it on jack stands. Start the car put in first and let the clutch out. Then have a buddy check the wheel/tire as it rotates the out of round condition will be apparent when you look at the top of the tire while it spins. Be careful and make sure the jack stands are well placed. You don't want to drive through the back of your shop!!!

 

Torquing the wheels lugs properly is critical. I have heard numerous problems resulting from improper torquing.

Plus, the helms manually tells you to do it and the helms is the bible for auto repair.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ironchef25 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">sorry if this is gonna sound really dumb...
buts why is that important? i mean why is torqueing your lugs at the proper lb so important. i thought as along as they are tight and not gonna come off they are good.????????? sounds stupid huh. sorry.... </TD></TR></TABLE>

If you torque them down to tight it will cause your rotor's to warp quickly. Not only will it warp your rotor's It will stretch the stud's causing them to weaken and fail.

To loose will cause the stud's to flex and break resulting in your wheel's falling off!