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I just thought that I would share this. Maybe it will be useful to someone or maybe you have some thoughts that will make this kind of thing easier.
So, on the way home from Mottino, I had a little wobble at 55 MPH and it settled down (but not gone) around 65. I assumed that I had a tire out of balance. Out of balance tires happen to me more often than I think that it should due to the cheap wheels that I use.
Monday, I went to get the broken wheel from the trail replaced with an old steelie that I have. I swapped a couple of tires to test the out of balance theory and found that the wobble didn't change. Sharon rode with me and we found that both tires were visibly wobbling. Damn... Death Wobble.
I've never had it, so I guess I am due. Luckily, it is a light dose.
Tonight, I started the typical drill to find what was loose. I truly didn't expect to find anything with the obvious stuff, because I recently had the track bar, tie rod ends, and drag link loose and inspected. I did all the work so I know that I torqued everything properly.
Even so, lo and behold, the track bar bolt at the axle was loose. I so expected the bolt to have resistance that I almost busted my knuckles when I found none.
Well, that's easy right? Just tighten it. in a nutshell, I put a breaker bar on it and couldn't tighten it.
Okay. So take it off and replace it. No go. I got a few turns an then started rounding the nut!
I cut off the head of the bolt, punched it through as far as it would go, then cut the nut off with a reciprocating saw.
Unfortunately, it got dark and the remaining piece of bolt no longer lines up with the front of the hole. Tomorrow, I will use a come-a-long to adjust the hole alignment to get the remaining piece of bolt out.
Whew! Just crazy. This should have been easy.
So, on the way home from Mottino, I had a little wobble at 55 MPH and it settled down (but not gone) around 65. I assumed that I had a tire out of balance. Out of balance tires happen to me more often than I think that it should due to the cheap wheels that I use.
Monday, I went to get the broken wheel from the trail replaced with an old steelie that I have. I swapped a couple of tires to test the out of balance theory and found that the wobble didn't change. Sharon rode with me and we found that both tires were visibly wobbling. Damn... Death Wobble.
I've never had it, so I guess I am due. Luckily, it is a light dose.
Tonight, I started the typical drill to find what was loose. I truly didn't expect to find anything with the obvious stuff, because I recently had the track bar, tie rod ends, and drag link loose and inspected. I did all the work so I know that I torqued everything properly.
Even so, lo and behold, the track bar bolt at the axle was loose. I so expected the bolt to have resistance that I almost busted my knuckles when I found none.
Well, that's easy right? Just tighten it. in a nutshell, I put a breaker bar on it and couldn't tighten it.
Okay. So take it off and replace it. No go. I got a few turns an then started rounding the nut!
I cut off the head of the bolt, punched it through as far as it would go, then cut the nut off with a reciprocating saw.
Unfortunately, it got dark and the remaining piece of bolt no longer lines up with the front of the hole. Tomorrow, I will use a come-a-long to adjust the hole alignment to get the remaining piece of bolt out.
Whew! Just crazy. This should have been easy.
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