DennisR
Senior Member
Mitch, I`ve looked at the cats but I can`t find an assembled pic. I`ve seen them assembled two ways, with the springs above the bottom plate and with the springs below.
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Mitch, I`ve looked at the cats but I can`t find an assembled pic. I`ve seen them assembled two ways, with the springs above the bottom plate and with the springs below.
Tom Wesenberg
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The springs go on last, just before the nuts, so they fit between the two nuts and the lower plate.
Before the first plate with hole goes on be sure the felt pad it tucked way up in the hole. You can push each end of the felt up along one side of the cross locking pin.
Before the first plate with hole goes on be sure the felt pad it tucked way up in the hole. You can push each end of the felt up along one side of the cross locking pin.
DennisR
Senior Member
Thanks Tom, mine were fitted incorrectly, they were on the spacers between the plates, I wasn`t sure so when I reassembled I put them back that way but it didn`t seem right, the pad is ok.
Tom Wesenberg
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I'm thinking that is maybe the leading cause of the death wobble. I'm still using a temporary front end while I rebuild the original on my 28. The temporary has very worn out king pin bushings, so I can jack it up and move the tops of the wheels in and out quite a bit, yet the steering is great with no death wobble.
DennisR
Senior Member
In the hope that it might help someone else I have just finished checking all the steering and only found two concerns,
The radius ball fittings were incorrectly fitted, I put them back as they were when I dismantled them, wrong, now correct,
The Pitman arm was loose on it`s shaft, my fault, I had replaced it with a shortened one and failed to tighten it enough, no harm done as this was the first run and only a very short one,
Not had time to give it a run today but fingers crossed the problem is cured, thanks again to all for your input...............
The radius ball fittings were incorrectly fitted, I put them back as they were when I dismantled them, wrong, now correct,
The Pitman arm was loose on it`s shaft, my fault, I had replaced it with a shortened one and failed to tighten it enough, no harm done as this was the first run and only a very short one,
Not had time to give it a run today but fingers crossed the problem is cured, thanks again to all for your input...............
Marshall V. Daut
Well-known member
If nothing else, you have eliminated two certain shimmy-makers from your list of suspects. Follow the other guys' suggestions about where to tighten and/or double-check, and that shimmy problem of yours should be history. If not, come back and we'll go to the next stage of "wobbliness". There is ALWAYS a reason for a shimmy to develop in a Model A. They didn't come from the factory that way. It's just a matter of eliminating all known troublemakers until you have isolated the guilty party - and then repair it.
Marshall
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