just a wee F.Y.I

[noobysurfer]

As some of you guys read and answered my posts about wobbly steering,I thank you for your input.So here is the script,I finally lost it on a bend much to the surprise of me undercrackers!So got a mechanic to strip it down and check the lot of the front assemblyI.E lower b/joints steering bushes and everything else I could remember off the forum! Verdict.....shot front and rear shocks and overinflated tyres!!!My guess...We will see!what ya think??

[MattF]

Link to your original thread?

How high is over-inflated?

[Albannach]

Given the rain we've had up here the past wee while, you should have been careful when cornering. Overinflated tyres would have made things worse. What pressure were they at? I had mine at 42 for a while and there were no adverse effects.

Wobbly steering and a bouncy front end are different things, that's why we'd miss the shock issue.

[noobysurfer]

Well they are new grabber AT's so should have been grippy!!The pressure was at 40psi as I tried to ease the steering rattling and the mechanic reckons 28 is plenty

[BUSHWHACKER]

Did the 'mechanic' check the steering rack bushes? They're a known MOT failure point on the 3rd gen. as they go soft over time allowing the rack to shift from side to side a little causing vague steering responce. Replace with a new harder set from Roughtrax.

[noobysurfer]

Yeah that was first on the list as well as steering dampers and lower ball joints.So the guy reckons new shocks will make a huge difference which I got from milners but I am sceptical!!!

[Albannach]

Well they are new grabber AT's so should have been grippy!!The pressure was at 40psi as I tried to ease the steering rattling and the mechanic reckons 28 is plenty

My tyres are (were) Grabber ATs too, who told you they were grippy? If you swing a 2 tonne pendulum round a corner too fast, it's going to slide. You're not in a Lotus 7 now!

I think 32psig is what most of us run on the road.

[Albannach]

Yeah that was first on the list as well as steering dampers and lower ball joints.So the guy reckons new shocks will make a huge difference which I got from milners but I am sceptical!!!

Ask him exactly how new shock absorbers will cure a steering wobble, then post back here.

[MattF]

Well they are new grabber AT's so should have been grippy!!The pressure was at 40psi as I tried to ease the steering rattling and the mechanic reckons 28 is plenty

40 psi is firm, but most definitely not unsafe. That should be a perfectly fine pressure to run on.

[gwh200]

40 psi might rattle your teeth out
and shit shocks would make an already nominally handling car handle badly.
But not send you off into a bush bad....just punch your mechanic

[BUSHWHACKER]

Yeah that was first on the list as well as steering dampers and lower ball joints.So the guy reckons new shocks will make a huge difference which I got from milners but I am sceptical!!!

Erm, you really should go to another garage, 3rd gens don't have steering dampers.

[POPEYE]

40 psi is firm, but most definitely not unsafe. That should be a perfectly fine pressure to run on.

I have 30psi in my bfg's and that feels hard!! gonna try em down to 25, 40 seems a bit too hard, depends on the tyre i suppose, (and the size of one's arse)

[BUSHWHACKER]

I have 30psi in my bfg's and that feels hard!! gonna try em down to 25, 40 seems a bit too hard, depends on the tyre i suppose, (and the size of one's arse)

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