Roadrunner 300 Rerverse Trike death shakes fixed!...again! By new2scootn (Read 505 times)

[new2scootn]

Woo-Hoo!!! "Death shakes" are gone after installing the new steering shaft u-joint and takin' my time and gettin' the alignment right! But I've been here before, and so have other Sunny reverse trike owners. Everything seems peachy right after the wheel alignment, then in a couple hundred miles that friggin' vibration starts kreepin' back. Well if it was kreepin' back due to the steering u-joint I've got it licked. But I think there are other factors goin' on here. Even though the main "death shakes" are gone I can feel a slight oscillation begin when coming to a stop on a bumpy road or if I hit a bump as coming to a stop. So thanks Alley for remindin' me about the guy who installed steering dampers on his trike. I do think there is a need for them on this beast and am looking into them now. I would much rather use a single centrally located damper than one on each spindle like that guy did. If anybody has some recommendations they would be welcome because there's a million of these things and there's no way I'm spendin' $400 bucks on one! $100 maybe, but that's my limit.

[cyborg]

There should be no reason to spend anything more than $40 for a steering damper ,,, that system you have is very prone to "bump steer" and that's what you're feeling in the bars,, great I'm glad you got it solved and fixed properly