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Well guys on saturday i had my car droped on H&Rs. well after i got my car back i noticed that the Steering wheel/brake pedel would shake a low speeds. It would go on and off sometimes it would sometimes it wouldnt. Well after talking to buckshot we thought it was Rotors well i changed them and its still there. next i took it to get it alined. Well after the alinement it still wasnt fixed. Well now heres my prob the guy at the alinement shop said that my passenger side Camber/caster was messed up and thats whats causeing the pull and shake. Is this true. Well next i ask him how can i fix it. He tells me by changeing the Strut. Is this true. So what can i do to fix it. So if i change the strut willll it fix my prob or is he handeing me some sht. Plez guy help me ASAP. Ohh another thing its only the right side thats giveing me problemss
Edit- when im comeing to a stop say from 35 or so thats when the car starts to shake until i stop.(steering wheel and brake)
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Originally posted by I-Dom-In-8: Well now heres my prob the guy at the alinement shop said that my passenger side Camber/caster was messed up and thats whats causeing the pull and shake. Is this true. Well next i ask him how can i fix it. He tells me by changeing the Strut. Is this true. So what can i do to fix it. So if i change the strut willll it fix my prob or is he handeing me some sht. it could be true that camber/caster is off, and causing a pull.... im not too sure about the changing a strut deal though...that doesnt sound right to me.....someone correct me if i am wrong
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What struts are you currently using?
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Im stilll useing my stockers
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thats weird mine tends to shake at low speeds with h&r's and stock struts...............
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I didn't put h&r's on mine but once I installed the gc/koni combo I didn't grease the cv joints good enough. This will cause your whole car to shake going down the road. including your gas pedal and steering wheel. I thought it was the motor mounts changed them still had the problem. I would check this before changing your strut. Negative camber should be on all 4 tires if the alignment was done right. But the camber is not of that much. I dropped mine 3 1/2 all around and the camber was -25 which doesn't hurt much at all maybe helps you take corners better
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The only way a strut would cause changes in your caster/camber is if the piston inside the strut had worn out of spec. Since the only things keeping it from moving are the piston and the seal on the top of the cyl. If it were worn out it would most likely throw your camber off. Caster would probably only noticeably change when you started or stopped.
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Originally posted by ExDelayed: The only way a strut would cause changes in your caster/camber is if the piston inside the strut had worn out of spec. Since the only things keeping it from moving are the piston and the seal on the top of the cyl. If it were worn out it would most likely throw your camber off. Caster would probably only noticeably change when you started or stopped.
I think I'm gonna disagree here... Anytime you lower a car, you now have a lower center of gravity, which causes the top of your wheels to go 'in' and the position of the struts changes, thus causing neg. camber. Control arms, control arms, control arms, co.... John
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Kev -- I would upgrade your struts.
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is it possible you hit a pot hole or your car was put on the lift wrong? my point is this, i have as stock ride but i kept getting this pull from the passenger side...i went to the dealer to get it checked out and aligned and they told me my camber was off, because my control arm was bent. and the tours control arms are in a fixed position and cannot be adjusted...so i just replaced the right control arm and the problem stopped...
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Originally posted by JVT: Originally posted by ExDelayed: [b]The only way a strut would cause changes in your caster/camber is if the piston inside the strut had worn out of spec. Since the only things keeping it from moving are the piston and the seal on the top of the cyl. If it were worn out it would most likely throw your camber off. Caster would probably only noticeably change when you started or stopped. I think I'm gonna disagree here...
Anytime you lower a car, you now have a lower center of gravity, which causes the top of your wheels to go 'in' and the position of the struts changes, thus causing neg. camber.
Control arms, control arms, control arms, co....
John[/b]OK, but changing the struts would not have an effect, which is his original question.
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Is it possible you bent a strut? A bent strut would give you caster/caber problems on that wheel, as well as some unpleasant suspension quirks due to the bent strut unable to travel properly.
One way to adjust the caster/camber slightly overall is for the alignment tech to shift the subframe assembly slightly to compensate.
In regards to your steering/pedal shimmy while stopping, did you clean any rust/debris off the hubs before installing the new rotors? If the hub surface is uneven, it could cause the rotor to seat crooked and cause a vibration. I have also seen a loose CV shaft nut cause vibrations due to the wheel bearing coming loose slightly inside the steering knuckle. As a result,, the hub tilts off center, causing a vibration. You could try checking the torque on your axle shaft spline nuts.
Just throwing out ideas....I hope this gets resolved...
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