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Old 02-23-15, 06:03 AM
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Question GS430 wiggles back and forth when stopped?

I just replaced lower ball joints, inner and outer tie rods (all Moog), lower control arm bushings and caster arm bushings (both Figs), and springs (Tanabe NF210).

Everything is much tighter, the shimmy at speed is gone, clunks are gone, but now I'm noticing that when I come to a stop, the car jiggles front to back 2-3 times before staying still. any ideas why?
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Originally Posted by Ahheck01
I just replaced lower ball joints, inner and outer tie rods (all Moog), lower control arm bushings and caster arm bushings (both Figs), and springs (Tanabe NF210). Everything is much tighter, the shimmy at speed is gone, clunks are gone, but now I'm noticing that when I come to a stop, the car jiggles front to back 2-3 times before staying still. any ideas why?
check steering rack bushings, brake rotors , and brake fitting kit. I read last night that you feel the road more with FIGS spherical bushings. is it like a shimmy throughout the car?
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Originally Posted by tmf2004
check steering rack bushings, brake rotors , and brake fitting kit. I read last night that you feel the road more with FIGS spherical bushings. is it like a shimmy throughout the car?
I don't have a shimmy - I said the shimmy is gone. The road feel is great.

The issue I have now is just when I come to a complete stop, the brakes are locked up, the tires don't move, but the car rocks front-to-back for a while before settling.
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This might be subjective, but how hard were the inner tie rods to change?
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Originally Posted by 02SDGS
This might be subjective, but how hard were the inner tie rods to change?
there fairly straight forward. I did to change mine as well. some good videos on YouTube on how to change them and mark them for the alignment
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Sounds to me like you killed your shocks putting those springs on. Happens all the time when only installing lowering springs rather than getting good quality shocks such as billsteins. I've heard kyb are decent too, just not as durable.

Get yourself some new shocks and you should be good to go.
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Originally Posted by Behemoth7
Sounds to me like you killed your shocks putting those springs on. Happens all the time when only installing lowering springs rather than getting good quality shocks such as billsteins. I've heard kyb are decent too, just not as durable.

Get yourself some new shocks and you should be good to go.
Ah, that makes sense. I have some low mileage bilstein HDs just waiting to be installed!
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