[Vwdiesel] RE: bounce

[Roger Brown]

greg rich wrote:
> 
> I second the cv shafts-I have had two cars with similar symptons your
> describing-but usually at 35-40 mph not 55. Shaking car-steering wheel going
> side to side-one car it was the inners joints had dried up and needed
> repacking, the other car the outer joing was sticking "out of round" meaning
> something was broken inside and jamming it so it was not straight anymore.
> Usually a bad tire/wheel combo is evident when balancing-it won't balance
> easily, it wobbles, etc.

I had an outer joint gradually fail over a year or two (it was starting
to go when I bought the vehicle so didn't notice it).  Periodically, I
would feel a pulsation in the steering wheel, usually when pulling hard
up a hill.  Later, I found that I could feel a flat spot on the front
tire caused by the "twitching" of the CV joint binding at the same point
in the tire rotation.  In fact, I thought the flat spot was the problem,
tires were shot anyway, so installed new tires only to have the CV sieze
for good about 50 miles later.

-- 
   Roger