Front end shake or shimmy
Ok here goes; See my profile and signature for unit info. I have a shimmy that feels like an unbalanced tire that started on rough I20 in Louisiana. It gets so bad at my preferred speed of 62 to 63 th...
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rgatijnet1 wrote:My young mechanic said that run-out was one of the many things they checked during the alignment procedure on their new high tech machine.
Did they actually check the run-out(wheel wobble) on your front end with the tires mounted? Since you said it started after driving over a rough road, it sort of indicates something was bent. I guess if the bump was hard enough a front spindle could be bent but I would have thought that alignment would have picked that up. Most alignments are done with the front tires still on the ground. Perhaps you need to see how the wheel spins when raised off of the ground to see if there is any wobble. A low tech way is to lift a front tire off of the ground and put something next to the coach that just barely misses the front rim(not the tire). Then you rotate the tire and see if the gap changes. Anything more than a 1/16" could cause a shimmy.
