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Wayne wrote:
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<pre wrap="">start before things began to happen. My neighbor did a visual check as I drove by and said that the passenger side wheel seems to slightly toe in and out. I </pre>
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<pre wrap="">That sounds like a bent wheel rim, which could cause some of what you're describing. You should lift the front and spin the wheels while using something to see if there is any run-out or "wobble" in the rim. A dial indicator is ideal, but anything you can hold stationary to detect bends in the rim is ok. You can also try swapping wheels front to back.</pre>
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Well, I can think of a few things this could be.<br>
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First of all if the wheel is visually appearing to toe in and out, I
rather doubt it's a halfshaft/CV joint. Possible, and those sumbitches
can certainly vibrate the hell out of everything. In my last race in
Grover's race car I lost the left outer CV at 130 mph just before
turn-in at TWS on the front straight. I about left a mess in my
driving suit that day. I had no idea what it was but found I could
drive it OK at reduced speed and since there were only two laps left I
limped it home.<br>
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My first thought would be a bad tie-rod end. They are basically
balljoints and if they are loose they can produce the effect described.<br>
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My second though is control arm bushings. Worn CAB can produce this.
The E46 BMW suffers from this badly and Bruce Hearn described the EXACT
same thing watching me in my car one day. Now, the E46 has a bigger
problem with this because there is webbing in the rear CABs, unlike the
SE-R, but if the CABs are really bad it COULD do this.<br>
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George Roffe<br>
Long dead 91 SE-R (would consider selling for parts)<br>
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