Thread: my 1986 560SEL
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Old 04-02-2013, 01:35 PM
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I am starting to think the maechanic at the indy shop I go to tightened the wheel bearings too much. Ever since that job, the car picked up a vibration / shake in the steering wheel. Last week we replaced one bad tie rod and the dampener; this helped a lot but I still feel it some (and finally got a good allignment). We also noticed the rear trailing arm bushings had moved as though they were not seated completelly and they moved back out some. This was also fixed last week.

Another thing is the slight pull to the right no matter witch way the road tilts. The first time I got it alligned was right after I got the car about one year ago. It still had the slight right pull and thw steering wheel was clocked a bit to theleft while going straight on a flat surface. Got a second alignment with the new idler arm bushing but still exact same pull to the right. Then got it alligned a 3rd time with the tie-rod. This time it felt pretty good. But when the rear bushings got reseated it got alligned a 4th time and it 's back to the old right pull. Rant over.
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