Went over on sat to see gary (ffcgary1) in mitcham on sat to get a rear blind off him
While I was there me and Gary Tried invain to track my steering knock down again but could not find anything loose at all, we had my car on ramps with weight on the wheels and we both could feel the knock in the steering wheel and on all the steering components underneth.
I have always had a slight wheel wobble in the steering wheel at speed even before the knock appered. James thinks the knock is from the steering Box but he said it should not cause vibration or wobble.
I have replaced so it cant be any of the below
Wishbones
Full Trackrods
Top Suspenstion Mounts and Bearnings
Brake Discs & pads
Front rear tires plus balance
Full Geo Setup camber toe and so forth
The one thing that has not been replaced is the center tie bar (track bar) but we both checked it and it did not seem to have anyplay at all.
The Idler Arm has no Movment and is solid
Went to Vauxhall and they said I would never get rid of the knock which i cant believe
the Steering Wheel had abit of play back and forth and up and down much more than gary's Omega had but also at Vauxhall i was told this is normal :-? :-?
I have three things left to change
Centre Tie Bar
Steering Column
Steering Box
Oh and to swap the fronts with the rears to see if that helps any to find out if a wheel is buckled, which i dont think they are as the guy who balanced them all span the front wheels on there own with no tires on to see if they were ok and they were
Anyone have any ideas I dont want to change the Steering Box As a new one is around the 1700 pounds mark and it looks like a pig of a job to remove.
I have spent enough trying to sort this out and cant afford to be just replacing bit at random guessing if its right to replace.
I can live with the knock but its the vibration and wobble i cant its not always there just about 7 times out of 10