Joel,

You're telling my story.  I chased a front end vibration for a few years.

Tightening bearings helped, but not much.  Rotating tires did nothing.
 Replacing front end componenets didn't help much.  Turned out to be a
bent/out of balance wheel!  I put the wheels from my '88 7 pass GL
onto my vibrating '85 2wd Westy, and the vibration went away.  Drove
5000 miles around western US in October with no vibrations - Great!

Karl Wolz

> I've had an intermittent vibration in front right side of my van (91
> 2wd multivan) since returning home from the Buses in Ruins trip last
> fall. I finally pulled the entire thing apart this weekend and the
> bearings, etc all looked good, so I repacked with grease and put it
> back together; and the vibration is, if anything, worse than before.
> So, next steps are looking at (1) rotor warp and (2) tire balance.