MIKE B - 82 CE

1982 CE - 54K miles. While braking in a turn at normal driving speeds, my front end wobbles or shimmys. It is not a violent shimmy, but it is noticable. Brake work includes stainless calipers, new pads and braided lines. It has good pedal and acts normally during straight braking.

Any ideas????

AGVI

rotors? :confused:

MIKE B - 82 CE

If that's the case..........How do you hide buying new rotors from your wife????

AGVI

Buy her something at the same time!!! :lolg:

MotorHead

Jack up one side and check the play in a front wheel, could be ball joints. :D

Twin_Turbo

sounds like warped rotors. Tell your wife it's dangerous, if she cares enough about you she'll let you get new ones (...or a new life insurance LOL)

stingraymaniac

must be the rotors ore the ball joints

Bill Oxley

I'm kind of thinking like Motorhead, sounds like ball joints or control arm bushings. Seems like if it was rotors, the wobble would occur also with straight ahead breaking as well.

If you thought the rotors were expensive, duck when you tell you wife about the front end repair. :eek:

And the ball joint replacement is so labor intensive, it just makes sense to replace everything once you have the control arms off . I'm in the middle of that right now, it's a big job.

Good luck.

SpyderD

Hmmm, I'm thinking it could be any number of front end suspension problems - Idler arm, steering assembly, alignment, maybe sticking brake pads...actually my first guess would be the idler arm.

MIKE B - 82 CE

It seems like a brake/rotor problem to me.... The car was fine before I put it up for the Missouri winter. It just went through the annual vehicle inspection where I would suspect that they would notice any front end problems.

NHvette

Stored for the winter .... could have some surface rust built up ...
different where the pads were resting. I would pull the calipers out of the way
adn clean up the rotor surface with some sandpaper or scotchbright.

:seeya

KenSny

I think the key here is that there is "no wobble/shimmy" during straight line braking but there is during cornering. I would look at the suspension first. All joints. Doubtful if anything is wrong with the rotors or calipers. Maybe something has come loose in the system since installing the new brake stuff.....