Shimmy While Braking After Installing New Wheels

[Floating VW]

Oh, and definitely keep an eye on your scrub radius. A little bit of scrub can be a good thing, but too much can cause the difficulties described by Mrgoodtunes above. Somewhere around 4 cm is probably good.

When I converted my drums to discs, it kicked the scrub radius out to about 6.3 cm. I feel this much scrub improved stability, especially in the corners, but also made the steering feel a touch heavy and prone to bump steer when the suspension was loaded. It was a fair trade, but only just.

I imagine those 25mm adapters and rims will add a considerable amount of scrub, which might be tolerable now, but if you ever upgrade to discs, you might not be happy with the result.
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[Starbucket]

It's because the front end is so light, When I put 8 spoke mags with 70 series tires on my 78 vert I had the same problems and cured it by putting two bags of cement (still in the bag ) in the front.

[Franco1962]

That’s too funny. After watching a video on aircooled.net I’m going to try to replace the control arm and sway bar bushings with urethane bushings. As I mentioned before a friend said that under breaking the car will have different characteristics. I’m wondering if changing those bushings will keep the steering Geometry in tact and keep it from shuttering. I ordered a kit for about 50 bucks so I think I might give that a shot first as it doesn’t seem too terribly invasive. I’ll certainly report my results back to the form and if anybody else has any better suggestions I’m all ears. Thanks for all your thoughts and advice.
Frank

[MrGoodtunes]

[dirtkeeper]

Check tire pressure? Tire shops always over fill. Just a thought

[MrGoodtunes]