Re: Front end shimmy- follow up

["Steve Nash" <steve@nashfloors.com>]

I got a bad rotor out of the box.  I went back and pulled them off and you
could see clearly where one had been balanced and the other had not.  I put
the old rotors back on and the problem is gone.

Thanks,

Steve Nash
1997 GLX- FOR SALE

----- Original Message -----
From: Seth Balsam <seth.balsam@prefer.net>
To: <steve@nashfloors.com>; <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 10:23 AM
Subject: RE: Front end shimmy


> Ah yes.  You put on new rotors.  I know this one.  Did you manage to
secure
> them to the hub using the little brass screws?  Or did you wind up
drilling
> off the heads of the old brass screws and leaving their stumps in the hub?
>
> If you simply left the old screw stumps in the hub and didn't bother
> properly lining the discs up with the hub (i.e. the five wheel bolt holes
> AND the small hole for the securing screw are PERFECTLY aligned- this is
> important!), your disks are not sitting flush with the hubs, i.e. they're
> slightly cocked.  I've had this happen to me when the local inspection guy
> took my wheel off and wound up moving a rotor out of aligment (my securing
> screw had stripped) and then putting the wheel back on.
>
> The solution:
>
> - Take off wheel
> - Align disk with hub (bolt holes AND screwhole!)
> - Put wheel back on
> - Email with questions
>
> Let me know what happens.
>
> Good luck!
> Seth
>
> ----SNIP-----
>
> I just replaced the brakes on my '97 GLX last week.  It got new pads,
> rotors, and fluid.  I now have a bad steering wheel shake at 65 MPH+.  It
> was rock solid before I did the work and I can't think of what could be
off.
> It feels like an out of balance tire so I rotated the rear to the front
but
> got the same result.
>
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