Just tried mine and it's worse! Going to get wheels balanced tomorrow grrrrrrr!
sounds like a worn bush or driveshaft issue somewhere,IMO nothing to do with spacers
After a week of driving with this slight vibration I have noticed something that I'm not sure if it's a characteristic of wheel wobble or not.
I get the vibration at around speeds of 70-80mph as said earlier but I have since learnt that I can only feel it when accelerating and not when just cruising at those speeds.
For example... I'll accelerate hard from 50-80 from about 70 I'll start to feel the vibrations though the steering wheel, even more so if there is more strain like accelerating up hill. But if I take the car to 85mph and then just let it slow down naturally to 50 I wont feel anything.
Also, if I was to drive at a constant 75mph on a smooth stretch of flat road, its smooth, but as soon as I start accelerating it starts to vibrate, even more so the harder I accelerate and then the vibrations die off when I get above 80mph.
So basically, is this what happens when some is not balanced or aligned correctly (with or without spacers) or is this in fact a symptom of something else?
I'm gonna try and take the front spacers off this weekend anyway as a test, but would like to know what your thoughts are on the above experience.
Cheers
I've just taken off my front spacers and I noticed whereas the rear ones fit tight as a glove and take a hell of a lot of effort to get them off, the front ones just fall off with finger touch. In fact there is the timiest amount of play between hub and spacer. So put some copper grease on the inner face of the spacer and around the hub, remounted them and this seemed to remove the play. Put them back on, greased the nuts, applied the torque suggested with a torque wrench, went back out and tested them, and once you get to 75mph+ it's exactly the same. Steering wheel doesn't noticeably vibrate as such, it's more that you can feel a vibration through it and through the floor pan on your feet. Very slight, but enough to **** me off.
I'm going to head off and have my wheels balanced just in case, but if not, and I remove the spacers and the issue goes then they're coming off; end of!
Good to hear you have the issue sorted Warren.
I've been following this thread as i have some 10 and 12mm H&Rs on order.
Do you have any fitment advice?
If you get your hub faces clean first, then ensure your wheel inner face is clean as you need completely flat clean face to face join.
Then get the wheels fine balanced if you can as it offers more fine tune than standard balancing.
Then copper grease your threads on your bolts, and torque up in star formation to about 80NM.
I'm not sure if the H&R hubs would benefit from a tiny bit of grease around the centre hub contact area to stop them bonding.
Other that that it should be happy motoring. Whilst you are there check the grub screw holding on your brake disc; one of mine was loose / proud.
Where can I get my wheels fine balanced? I had them balanced to see if they was the problem and although I was told that they were out the problem is still there.
This is going to sound really stupid now though... I only had the front wheels balanced as I thought the rears wouldn't have an effect on the steering ... Can just rears give these symptoms?