I have an '85 Westy with a persistent vibration in both the car body and
the steering wheel that starts at about 45mph.

It has been a problem for about a year and slowly getting worse.  I
wrote about it a few months ago after I installed Go Westy alloy wheels
and the vibration did not go away.  I got some good feedback from this
list that if I was sure the wheels were balanced then I needed to look
at the suspension.  My mechanic says the wheel bearings, cv joints etc
are all in good shape and referred me to a good tire shop.  They found
two of my new wheels out of balance and did a "forced balance", meaning
moving the tire on the rim.  That helped, but it is still there.  One
odd thing - it is worse when accelerating and decreases when I take my
foot off the gas pedal.

I am guessing I have bad motor mounts.

Has anyone ever run into anything like this?

BTW, I have four steel 14" rims if anyone wants to come and get them.

Dave Boan
dboan@bluecrab.org
Easton, MD