Hot Rods Sorry another Question on supension

Still working on the same issue Yup solid axle builds can be aggravating. Car again is a 29 Model A on 32 frame Solid axle,4 inch drop,Vega steering box. .Have followed many of your tips; Better, less shake but still not right Panhard ,drag link,tie rod king pins, hairpin rods ,on and on etc... all tight

How about buying a quality steering Stabilizer What do you think wasting more money??? gene

 

Same set up as mine, I used a Bogensen stabilizer in the steering shaft

 

I assembled my car after paint and forgot to install the stabilizer. I drove it around a bit, installed the stabilizer and drove it again. It is still on there. It makes a difference, little resistance, seems to quiet things. To be honest I'm not sure I would pay for it but I already had it. I don't know what your issue was because you seem to have started a new thread, so I am clueless. You would have received better help if you had continued this in your original thread.

That is neat. How's that work? Fluid filled? Rubber dampener? I take it there is nothing hard connecting the shaft to the box or another shaft?

 

Rubber joint and It's in the same category as rag joints

 

A couple of thoughts, reverse wheels as good as they look will amplify issues like this.
The out of round tire thing has been explored and is fairly easy to check at a tire shop with a run out gauge. You can check that yourself by driving the car far enough to get the tires hot, pulling back in the garage, jacking the front tires off the floor a tad and setting something up next to the tread and rotate the tire by hand to see what it shows. I'd do that first. Back in the 70's I checked hundreds of tires for out of round and deflated a bunch of them and turned the tire half way around on the rim and inflated them and re-balanced them and checked again. Sometimes you win and sometimes you don't and I had very picky new car customers at the time.

Last but maybe not least, Find a shop that still has one of the old on the car spin balance machines and one that uses a strobe if possible. I've seen out of balance drums mess everything up and have even seen an out of balance new car hubcap that made us scratch our heads more than a little bit. That was a fancy Ford cap in the early 70's.

 

Did you use it?

 

Absolutely, put it on when I built it 25 years ago. So I don’t know if it does anything, but my car handles like it should, no shimmy and the wheel feels good over bumps

 

A stabilizer is a last resort. Check everything. If it's supposed to move in only one direction, make sure its smooth in the plane and doesn't have play in others. If it spins, make sure it's not out of round or imbalanced. It's often a culmination of a few different small issues, not a single smoking gun.

 

Stabilizers are a bandaid for those who have other issues they can't discover. If they were a necessary thing the auto makers would have installed them when the cars all came out of the factory. Never had one, and never needed one on numerous solid axle cars.

 

I fell some of these issues come from Flex with certain wheel off set , tire size.
After all was checked ,Toe , camber, caster, @ ride height.

Flex in steer arms L to R ,
Flex in steer rod
Flex in cross steer ,
Cheap vega box or worn