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Help! Steering change mid ride.
I have a 2015 STS that I've put about 700 miles on and love it (brand new old model). I installed the Bajaron sway bar and links from Lamonster about a week ago and love the difference they made (rode all week after install approx 65 miles). However my wife and I are in Estes and on the way up here after riding for 2 hours half way through the canyon the back started to feel loose and it started to act very unpredictable in the corners, up to that point it was like riding on rails. I pulled over and felt all the connections for the sway bar and they felt good, going to check them as best I can in the morning as well as the tire pressure. It was just odd that it changed all of a sudden. Any ideas as to what to check would be appreciated I had to take it super easy for the last 10 miles and we'd planned on riding the mountains for the next two days straight.
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Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie
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Thanks really hoping it's just a pressure issue and I can top it off tomorrow first thing I'm checking when there's light again. As for hitting a hole, nope was smooth sailing, fingers crossed for pressure
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Steering change
Just a passing thought, I have been in a car when an earthquake hit and the car feels pretty loose until the shaking stop.
Hear there was a earthquake in MT. Friends in Sandpoint ID felt it. Perhaps????
Dennis
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Originally Posted by djhobin
Just a passing thought, I have been in a car when an earthquake hit and the car feels pretty loose until the shaking stop.
Hear there was a earthquake in MT. Friends in Sandpoint ID felt it. Perhaps????
Dennis
good idea on the earth quake , I would not have thought of it , ---- on the rear end feeling loose --------> have the wife get it in reverse and roll it back on a straight road area , and make sure the rear tire is tracking true , ( not from a loose axle nut ) .. check the air ride on the shocks also , -- pressure --- good luck on your trip and safe journey
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A sudden pressure loss in the rear suspension will make it feel different.
Any chance that the wind changed direction or became more gusty for the last part of the ride ??
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Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie
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All of the above
Good points.. also road conditions and surface changes can give you this effect. We have had a lot of threads on rear shock issues especially on the F3 but not to say it cannot be an issue on the ST. Start with the tire pressures and shock condition and go from there.
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STEERING ISSUE
To give a better than SWAG answer .... Has / did this steering condition continue after you checked things .... or when you got back on it was OK ...... Mike
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Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie
Are you still running on OE spec Kendas?
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Originally Posted by Peter Aawen
Are you still running on OE spec Kendas?
Yup bikes only got 800 miles on it.
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Originally Posted by dom
Yup bikes only got 800 miles on it.
FWIW, I'm running 18 front and 26 rear. Manual says 20 front and 28 rear plus or minus 2 lbs. I went with the minus 2 lbs. Handles great. Headed to Gunninson Colorado tomorrow for a few days. We will see how it handles the curves up there. On the stock tires! 2016 RT SM6.
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