Steering shake at 50mph

[itguy]

Hi Everyone

I am having trouble resolving my steering wheel shake issue.

It is worst at 50mph and seems to get a bit better as you go faster and goes completely when driving slower.

I've had the front wheels balanced again today (3rd time) and this was after having them off the car overnight.

One thing I have done recently is to take out the camber pins on the front suspension turrets to get some more camber - I've not had anything adjusted or checked on the geo yet, but I've just pushed them as far inwards as I can.

Would this cause this kind of weird issue? Could it have altered the caster / toe at the front too and now it's all totally mismatched and causing this weird issue?

I know I really need to get it on a Hunter or something to check it out, but any advice would be helpful

Thanks

 

[Captainken]

I had this problem on a vauxhall quite a few years ago after having some new wheels and tyres fitted
The suppliers tried changing around and rebalancing the wheels three times before changing the wheel nuts and this solved the problem
That was a new one on me
Hopefully an easy and cheap conclusion if it works
Good luck with it

 

[itguy]

Wow, really?!

Well I suppose I could weigh each wheel bolt and see if I can get a matching set for each wheel

 

[itguy]

Ok, have weighed the all the wheel bolts, they are all 68g exactly so no problem there.

I've re-adjusted the suspension camber at the front back to stock so now just need to nip out when it's dry again to see if that has changed anything.

 

[itguy]

Interesting.

Put the suspension back to stock camber setting at the front and bingo, wheel shake gone.

So - this is the first time ever I've seen this happen... any ideas as to what is going on? Could it be that I inadvertently adjusted a bit of caster too and the toe changed, meaning it was just all to c**k?