Dave, do you feel the vibration in the steering wheel or the brake pedal?
How about when you apply brakes? Take a left or right turn? Depress the
clutch? Those are things to look for and will help you determine if it's the
front or rear, left or right.

 Joachim Preiss
 Acton, MA
 [mailto:spielmobil@snuttig.net}
 '85 Westfalia 1.9WBX 'Spielmobil'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Dave
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 21:10
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: '85 Westy Vibration
>
>
> I have an '85 Westy that has been vibrating more and more over the past
> year at speeds over 50 mph.  I had front and back wheels aligned and
> balanced and that had no impact.  I thought maybe the shop did a lousy
> balancing job, but I just changed to 16' wheels from Go Westy, (which
> are great), and the vibration is unchanged.  BTW, the van has 178,000 on
> the original motor, and the shocks were changed at 75,000.  Does any one
> have an idea of what to check next?
>
> Thanks
> Dave Boan
> Maryland
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