[indyzmosthated]

Hers the deal, I just replaced my uppers, lowers, springs, tie rods and linkages with chrome ones. When I get it up to 30 mph it sways side to side. I took it to get aligned (set it close to factory ride hieght) and it is a little better but still not that safe to drive. It used to not do it with my old parts. I have new bushings and ball joints in the new chrome parts. Any body have any suggestions

 

[indyzmosthated]

any help...... I really want to get this fixed so I can get to a show tomorrow.

 

[carvr2]

MIne did that too only after I took the sway bar and shocks out :biggrin:

 

[dough916]

are you sitting on the switch box?







are you saying the steering is loose, or the body of the car rolls side to side?

 

[indyzmosthated]

no im not sitting on the switch box ( little smarter than that!) The steering is tight but it feels as if the car is goint side to side.like what it feels like if you just jerk your steering wheel side to side while doing about 30 mph in a normal car.

 

[indyzmosthated]

13x7 with a white wall............... see the whole situation is that the car did not do this until I put on the chrome

 

[zeet]

take off the chrome and that to go to the show then sought it out when you get back.. maybe take off one part at a time and replace it with the other old one to find out which is stuffin up.. (process of elimination)

 

[dough916]

sorry man, the switch box thing was just my lame atempt at humor.

but anyway--- my car did the same thing. are your new uppers extended? if they are any different than your old ones i think that may be part of the problem. did they adjust the cars camber/caster when you got it aligned?
most lowriders perfer to take out all the shims and/or extend our uppers and keep the uppers sticking out as far as we can, distroying the camber/caster angle, which can cause this swaying.

i played around with the tire presure on my car and calmed it down a bit.

 

[indyzmosthated]

the uppers arent extended and im not using any shims. all they did at the shop was adjust the tow

 

[vhughes22]

My 63 is doing the same thing, ever figure out what the problem was?