first step as diagnosis is to move the front wheels to the back
and the back wheels to the front and see if it still does the
front end shimmy.
Manfred
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 14:30:00 -0400
From: Meade Dillon <dillonm...@gmail.com>
To: Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: [MBZ] 124 Steering Wheel Shakes
'87 300TD, 124.193, 343k miles. Help me with some diagnosis ideas please.
At highway speed, sometimes the steering wheel will shake, most of the time
it will not. Today it would shake during a turn at highway speed, and
turning left or right would make it shake. Occasionally, on the first
acceleration to highway speed, once I get above 50 mph or so, it will shake
while going straight, and then stop after 5 - 10 seconds. After a shaking
episode, the car is fine for the rest of the day.
A few weeks ago I had the car aligned. I've just installed a set of used
tires on the front axle; these were the best two taken off my '95 sedan a
couple weeks ago.
Paid extra for "Road Force" balancing:
http://www.gsp9700.com/search/findgsp9700.cfm
Most of the front-end components are fairly new and either OE from MB or
"Rusty" parts. Struts, lower control arm inner bushings, ball joints,
idler arm bushings. I'm not sure about the steering damper. The wheel
bearings were checked and packed with fresh grease about 7 years / 40k
miles ago.
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Max
Charleston SC
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