[Fwd: Scuddering Scirocco continues...]

[T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>]

Forwarded from the Newsgroup: <mailto:art.clemens@nashville.com>

art clemens wrote:
> 
> Still working on this one...
> 
> 1.  Took a left curve hard and came out shaking.  Took car home 15 miles
> 
> 2.  Found both alignment bolts on right strut were loose.  Tightened,
> took slowly for alignment.
> 
> 3.  After alignment car had weird shimmy.  Right turns under power
> produced bad shake on right side.
> 
> 4.  Found that right wheel bearing was slightly noisy.  Got both wheel
> bearings done and alignment.
> 
> 5.  Problem is not gone.  Shop screws around for days ends up replacing
> both axles to no avail and tells me it HAS to be the right strut.  Tell
> me to get a new strut.
> 
> 6.  Last Saturday I walked up and drove away in my car.  Shop hasn't
> called me since...  I haven't paid for anything but bearings and
> alignment.
> 
> 7.  Per some advice from this group I check the engine placement and see
> that it is almost all the way to the left.  Per the Bentley (obviously I
> never read that page)  I loosed all the mounts and set about centering
> it.  The manual says set it with car on ground but darn if I can do that
> so I did it on stands.  I found that on the rear mount one of the 2 13mm
> topside nuts was gone and the other was loose!!  Of course shop tole me
> they had checked all the mounts...  I fix this and center it and tighten
> all the mounts back.
> 
> 8.  Now the shimmy is much less and harder to induce.  It was just on
> right turns and a little on straight and none on left.  Now IT is less
> on right, less on straight and also some going to the left.  Stil you
> must push the car in a turn to really experience it.
> 
> The car is 88 S 16V  I built this last summer.  I have put maybe 10K
> miles on all these new components.  It is a 2.0 16V.  All suspension
> bushing are Autotech poly ones.  Bilstein sports and H&R springs with
> new strut bearings. Ball joints and tie rod ends are still OEM with
> about 80K on them.  All motor mounts went in new with the engine.  I put
> the Velocity locker in the trans at the same time.
> 
> It seemed the rear mount was still fine.  I am wondering if it put some
> strain on the differential flanges or the diff or something.  This is
> where I plan to look tomorrow.  Pull the axels, check the flange fit,
> probably go ahead and pull the flanges, etc.
> 
> Anyone else got any other ideas?  I welcome your input...
> 
>                                                                                 Art

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