Wheel shimmy

[Eddie Rezac]

Originally Posted by Greg Hill

We tried everything on my son Andrew's car and ended up having to put a steering damper on it. My car is just like his except he has wheelie bars and I don't. My car doesn't shimmy like his did. Both are 70-71 Camaros. The steering damper cured his car.

Have you guys checked that the steering box is set on center. When a box is off center the steering wheel will have an excess amount of play, and can cause a very severe shimmy. When it is dead on center, there is a high spot, in the box where it has "0" play. This applies to all vehicles, (street, race or otherwise) except those with rack and pinion steering.
A Chevy II of the 1968 and later can benefit from longer upper ball joints. The kit that I build is for the 1967, and older Chevy II. It is a completely bolt on kit, no bending, or modifying anything else, just follow my instruction sheet, and go racing.
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