Terrible Frontend Shimmy

[Tom Wesenberg]

With 15# torque on the front wheel bearings, I'd carry some spare bearings and tools to change them on the road.
Carry a tube of grease to lube them also.

 

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

H.L. Chauvin, tbirdtbird, 700RPM, Ron in Quincy, ford 3, gweilbaker, Patrick L., Bill Williamson, John LaVoy, Phil, Greg Jones, J Bill, fredski, and Mike: a huge thanks to all of you for your suggestions to cure the shimmy. I spent the last day and a half tightening the tie-rod and draglink endcaps, torquing the axle nuts to 15#, and checking looseness. I then drove the coupe over the bumpiest road in town and other secondary roads and did not get the slightest bit of shimmy. From reading all you posts the main thing that was mentioned was the importance of tightening everything that needed to be tight. You all are a Godsend. Thanks again.
Sam (some mech 3)

Great news, Sam, Didja' take yo' Dog with you? I get to go on Vermin's Maiden Voyage whin Ol' Bill gets him FIRED! Buster T.

 

[tbirdtbird]

this was the advice:
torque hex nut to 15 #, then back off one full castellation and install cotter

 

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

this was the advice:
torque hex nut to 15 #, then back off one full castellation and install cotter

That seems like a good common sense "RULE OF THUMB", If you didn't have the "specs" on a particular car. Bill W.

 

[tbirdtbird]

Ya; that is actually from Jim Schild's Model A Restorer's book

 

[billy myers]

could have bad front spring