shakey steering wheel

[hondobug92]

When I get up to 65 my steering wheel starts to shake. Not strong but with a little wobble and sometimes its intermittent. Can someone help me out with a diagnosis Thanx

[keepinitclean]

Well when I'm on idle my steering wheel shakes, then I got a upper front strut bar and I don't have any problems You should check em out, they really do a number on steering too!

[metruis02]

mine does the same thing. Its my wheel bearing and i have bad tires on the front. Its prob your wheel bearing also. Does the shaking get worse as you go over 65?

[cb7legend]

Check your tires, when was the last time you had them balanced? It could also be your alignment or even your brakes.

[Slow]

Though less likely than the others. If the vibration only happens when under load it might be your cv axle.

[42na2cb7]

get a wheel alignment and make sure your tires have the right pressure too.

[DirtyBird33]

A list of possibilities

Tires out of balance or the "bushings" (not sure the technical term) are worn in the steering system.

It could be faulty steering dampers. This is a shock that crosses from left to right connecting to tie rod ends. The shock is very firm and you will not be able to actuate it by hand if working properly. usually causes left to right steering oscillation at low to mid speeds.

Warped brake rotors for cars with front disk brakes. The rotor hits the caliper every tire rotation causing a small bump in the steering wheel each time.

Your tires might need to be rotated and balanced.

Check tires should be balanced, alingned or probably a bent front tire.

Most of the time its only bad front tires or is the steering wheel shaking when you are braking if so then you have warped rotors another thing when you brake does the car pull to the right or the left if so that will determine what rotor is bad and for but if it doesnt shake while braking that could mean your tires are cupped in the front or there not balanced properly.

Depends when the wheel shakes. If it is during braking then your rotors are warped. If it is durinig normal driving then yes it could be bent rim, loose/worn suspension components. A balance problem is usually indicated by vibration in the vehicle not usually a shaky steering wheel. It may also be that the steering gear is badly worn which causes greater than normal spaces between the meshing parts.

Out of balance wheels, bent rim, shifted belt in tire or other defect in tire including irregular wear (tire rotation under these conditions will on move the vibration felt), loose lug nuts, worn inner tie rod end bushings like mentioned on chrysler product above, loose mounted or internal play in the rack and pinion steering gear. Wheel Alignment or Front end Alignment will not cause a vibration.

CV joint could cause this.

Or a bent rim, which balancing will not fix.

Check the lug nuts on all your tires. That did it for me.

Shaking could also occur from camber being ofset as well

Also try new CV boots or a driveshaft replacement

[Leung]

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I think you only feel warped rotors when you apply the brakes. you'll feel a pulsing through the pedal when they are actually warped.

[civilized211]

i would check your tie rod ends if they are bad you will get alot of wheel shake at different speeds

[dano28]

Steering wheel vibration that cycles points to wheel balance. Try switching rear tires to the front just to experiment.

[MattZimms]

Rack Guide Screw Adjustment

This is what I had to do to get mine adjusted correctly. It fixed my problems and the car tracks and works great now. I had new tires and wheels balanced, ti rod ends, alignment, new struts and springs and everything else replaced and it still shook. I needed all that replaced anyway so I looked into what else it could be. I have a Honda Odyssey and it does the same thing and sure enough, it is the rack guide screw, here is a website that explains it and how to fix it.

I never bought the 40mm wrench for it thought. I sprayed it with WD-40 and then took my 14 mm to the nut head and the big nut backed out at the same time. I followed the instructions on how to adjust it and then tapped the big nut back in place with a flat screw driver and hammer, works great and I didn't have to spend a dime to get it fixed either.

http://elitecm.net/forums/index.php?topic=2817.0

[Relaxedcb7]

My '92 was doing the same, shaking at around 60 mph. turned out it was the CV axle going. I changed my pass side one and the car runs great again. No more shakes.

[MattZimms]

I also changed both cv axles as well. Basically did a complete rebuild of the car. Will post some pics and a thread later. It wouldn't hurt to adjust the guide screw anyway, it is a free thing to fix and find out.

[skeeter1982]

mine started shaking around 60 and it turned out to be both upper ball joints are bad

[tommi]

wheels need balanced. check ball joints and tierod ends as well.