Does anyone have some on thier xb? My steering "shimmies" not a lot, but enough to bother.

Gerald Buscemi

Yellow is Mellow #1477

 

You're probably are out of alignment or need to re-balance your wheels.

If you want to tighten up the steering, get less body roll and less jarring ride get the Energy Suspension bushings for the front end links. There is a whole thread on this and the mod costs about $15.

 

My xB's steering wheel will start to shake a little once it gets over 80 MPH. It's not much, but it doesn't shake at all below 80. Not a big deal because I rarely go that fast.

I agree that you probably have a tire out of balance. I'd try rotating the tires to see if it gets any better.

 

Yeah, I had a set of wheels that did that. Then later with new tires on them it went away. I'm thinking that place I got them from never balanced them right.

 

check your tire balance , alignment and add upgraded sway bar bushings. my stock ones were toast ( stock to begin with are horrible) I had a shimym at 75-82ish . added the buchings gone. allready had alignment and all new wheels balanced. added teh bushings and now is perfect

 

Good advise hotbox. The bushings did help retighten everything up again.

 

yeah i didn;t expect any difference in ride , hell i barely expected a real difference in handling but i was wrong. i figured all my suspension upgrades would make these bushings add little to nothing but NOPE.


huge difference and only about 15 bucks!