I'd try the alignment. My wife's pontiac did that and it ended up being the
alignment.
Karsh
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@BUFFNET.NET]On Behalf Of Andy Levy
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 6:49 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: DML: Is it my brakes or alignment? (long)
For a while now I've been feeling a subtle wobble that's speed-dependent.
It's not severe - steering wheel doesn't shake (like it did when I had a
pound of mud caked inside the rim), but you can feel it in your body ever
so slightly. I had my wheels rebalanced yesterday (Monday), thinking that
was the problem. All 4 wheels were slightly out of whack. I had a full
set of tires put on at 28K back in January, I'm at 33K now.
But this didn't solve the problem. I'm still feeling the shakes. And it
gets stronger when I get on the wide pedal. I feel a slight pulsation in
the pedal, but not a large amount, and not consistently.
I'm thinking warped rotors, considering the wonderful luck the rest of the
GenIII folks have had with theirs. But a co-worker suggested it may be my
alignment (thought if I drove too long on misbalanced wheels it could hurt
alignment). I'm not seeing any odd wear on my tires aside from some
scuffing on the outside treadblocks on each front wheel. But I check this
after making several low-speed turns on a roughly paved parking lot.
Ideas? At 33K, my brakes aren't under warranty, and I'm pretty sure an
alignment won't be covered anyway. Either way, I'm shelling out
money...just not sure where to start.
-- -andyhttp://home.twcny.rr.com/andylevy/ --- andylevy@yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------- modesty, n.: Being comfortable that others will discover your greatness -------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 12:01:32 EDT