Steering shake continuation

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Originally Posted by the evil twin

... and the cause in this particular case was...?

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Im leaning towards JoeG's explination

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Originally Posted by the evil twin

... and the cause in this particular case was...?

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He must be good. He knows they have stopped before the owner of the vehicle has even driven it...

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Originally Posted by nissannewby

He must be good. He knows they have stopped before the owner of the vehicle has even driven it...

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The owner did drive it post number 2 "update"

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Originally Posted by peterbr1

The owner did drive it post number 2 "update"

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Interesting.....

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Originally Posted by nissannewby

Interesting.....

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lol.............

If you did nothing but grease the kingpins.
Did you put the assembly back in the same orientation "not spin the carrier around".
I'd bet Originally The flat spot/dibbets in the bearings were lined up giving excess play.
Arrhh, now there misaligned since they were removed & greased, think you've spun the carrier upon reassembly.
this may explain the sudden perceived improvement.

Thanks for the responses so far.

I took the car for a good drive and didn't get speed wobbles at all. As an added bonus (for me, as my attempts at mechanical things don't always go as planned!) there were no remaining screws/bolts, no scary noises, and the steering felt good.

Robo, there is a good chance that the carrier was not set back in the same orientation as it came out. Visual inspection (totes scientific) ended up with me deducing that there is no "wrong" way to put them in. Given that I didn't resort to callipers or other measuring tools, my assumption could be very easily proven wrong.

If the assemblies do have a correct way that I unwittingly got wrong, what would be the result? Given its a car, I assume "catastrophically expensive" is the answer, but what are the details?

so long as they are oem assemblies your cool putting em back in.
yes just the orientation and wear points have/possibly moved

ya can buy off set carriers which move the caster,
the lug the bearing fits on isn't centered.

and offset bearing cups are also available.

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Originally Posted by peterbr1

I agree with JoeG but if you do replace the bearing I recommend you put in new shims also.

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Good point... what size shim is best to use?

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Originally Posted by the evil twin

Good point... what size shim is best to use?

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Thin ones [emoji8]