vivivibbbbrating steering column

[Greg Schilhab <gschil@orthomed.org>]

>Ah. but what shape are the strut bearings in?? I bet they are in need of 
replacement. 
>Some of the symptoms you described are direct indicators of the strut bearing 
gone bad, 
>which, doesn't take long for them to degrade to a worthless hump of rubber  

Thanks Shawn, you were right! I'm looking at my shock towers and I see on 
the right side the round metal plate of the bearing protrudes about 3/4 
of an inch higher than the left side. This is a squashed n' dead strut 
bearing isn't it? You say some of symptoms are a direct indicator... No 
doubt this is responsible for the the clunking on speed bumps. How about 
the vibration and play- have you heard of this going away after replacing 
the bearing?

Those are rubber mounts on the steering rack, huh?  I have to suspect 
these items since this is a rather powerful vibration and is exclusively 
channeled through the column and is utterly absent when I'm moving. There 
really *seems* be some abnormal linkage (ie a dried out or missing rubber 
mount) between a normally vibrating engine or chassis and the column,. 
Maybe a year of this also fried the column bearing as well and the 
combination of all of the above is giving me the shakes. 

The dead rear mount on my old car caused more generalized vibration and 
the engine would jump around if you let the clutch out to abruptly- but 
then again it was totally dead.

greg 

 
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