Radial walk

Mike Graham · 06-01-2015, 05:41 PM

My car has started to do the radial tire dance in shutdown. It got severe at Fontana.
Nothing is new on the car and it has never done this before. Still works great everywhere else on the track. Any Ideas?

Jeff Jewell · 06-01-2015, 06:04 PM

When my car had the same symptoms a few years ago, it was caused by the corner weights being off. The front left corner was too heavy. When letting out of the throttle in shutdown, too much weight was shifting to that corner and unsettling the car. Tom Goldman scaled the car for me and got the corner weights right. It hasn't radial wobbled on top end since.

Jeff Goss · 06-01-2015, 07:13 PM

I had that problem. The rear shocks were bad.

Good luck with the fix!

06-01-2015, 05:41 PM	#1
Mike Graham Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 388 Likes: 1 Liked 299 Times in 56 Posts	Radial walk My car has started to do the radial tire dance in shutdown. It got severe at Fontana. Nothing is new on the car and it has never done this before. Still works great everywhere else on the track. Any Ideas?

06-01-2015, 06:04 PM	#2
Jeff Jewell Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Bangor, PA Posts: 182 Likes: 41 Liked 172 Times in 36 Posts	Re: Radial walk When my car had the same symptoms a few years ago, it was caused by the corner weights being off. The front left corner was too heavy. When letting out of the throttle in shutdown, too much weight was shifting to that corner and unsettling the car. Tom Goldman scaled the car for me and got the corner weights right. It hasn't radial wobbled on top end since.

06-01-2015, 07:13 PM	#3
Jeff Goss Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Burlington, WA Posts: 361 Likes: 1 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Radial walk I had that problem. The rear shocks were bad. Good luck with the fix!