Steering wheel wobble

[scooba_285]

Went 4x4ing today with some forum members and now driving the steering wheel wobbles and gets worse the faster I go, at 100 its nearly uncontrollable thought it was all the mud inside my wheel (there was lots) cleaned that out and still doing it, any ideas?

 

[ben85]

maybe you lost a balancing weight?

 

[scooba_285]

I was thinking maybe that, don't really know thou? Can't tell if ones missing

 

[d22dave]

Rotate your tyres front to , should let you know if its a balance issue

 

[scooba_285]

Yeah there's still mud everywhere, will clean it up and see what happens, if not ill put the rear wheels on the front

 

[d22dave]

Yeah there's still mud everywhere,

You,d be surprised how little mud is needed to put it out of balance

 

[tony d22]

I'd say it's the mud but if not,
Check sway bar bushes and uneven wear on the outside lugs especially on mud tyres.

 

[nakedape]

Check for:

1) Mud/ dirt as per previous posts
2) Damaged lugs as per previous posts
3) Loose wheel nuts (you'd be surprised)
4) Get a balance

 

[scooba_285]

Turns out it was the mud, also have Los a wheel weight but doesn't seem to wobble since the mud is gone, cheers for the thoughts

 

[d22dave]

Mud makes a huge difference. The utes at work drive fine one day and then crap for a day or two until the crap falls off

 

[nakedape]

I once dropped a wheel into a country town tyre repairer to fix a puncture and he balanced it with mud on it - took me ages to work out why it wobbled after i cleaned it!

 

[d22dave]

I once dropped a wheel into a country town tyre repairer to fix a puncture and he balanced it with mud on it - took me ages to work out why it wobbled after i cleaned it!

That's funny, except for the cost of rebalancing