[Healeys] Slight pull to the right

Richard Ewald richard.ewald at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 15:37:48 MST 2010


Easy way to check for a tire pull is to swap them side to side. IOW  
put the Right side tires on the left and the lefts on the right.
If the pull is now the other way it is the tires.
Rick

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On Mar 1, 2010, at 13:29, Peter Schauss <rpschauss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have the tires checked.  My son took his Volvo into the dealer for a
> similar problem and was told that he had "radial tire pull".  I looked
> it up and it appears to be a problem with the belts being in the wrong
> position.  The people at the dealer told him that he should be able to
> get the used car dealer where he bought the car to replace the tire.
>
> HTH,
> Peter Schauss
> 1963 BJ7
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Tom <ah3000me at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Discs get hot, even when the calipers aren't dragging.  Don't touch
>> the discs; check the caliper instead.
>>
>> - Tom
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Simon Lachlan
>> <simon.lachlan at homecall.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Try driving along somewhere where you can keep off the brakes and  
>>> stop
>>> without killing yourself, maybe a slight uphill gradient. So, pull  
>>> over
> and
>>> immediately check if the RHS, probably front, disc is hot or  
>>> hotter than
> the
>>> LHS. If so, you've probably cracked it.
>>> Simon
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