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Camry steering wheel shaking

The steering wheel on my 1998 Camry recently started shaking left to right while driving. It's constant.

It started when I changed all four sets of brake pads and put the rear tires on the front, front tires on the rear.

But, the front of the car did fall off the support jacks when both front tires were off. It fell on grass. First time that ever happened to me. Quite scary.

To me it just looked like the plates that protect the rotors from road junk got bent, but maybe something else happened?

Or maybe it's just the rear wheels, which are now on the front, are unbalanced?

I don't know.

Any thoughts?

Thanks Steve

Reply to
Steve K
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I'd try switching the tires back first and then go from there.

Reply to
Jason

You put your jack stands on the grass?

Reply to
Daniel

UPDATE:

I went out to move the front wheels back to the rear, where they were before the shaking started, and realized the left front was loose and

12lbs low on pressure. I forgot to final tighten the lugnuts after the jack came down.

DUH to me.

Reply to
Steve K

Any thoughts? Wow...car fell off the stands?! You probably have some other damage that will show up. How can you forget to tighten the lug nuts? Did you bother to use a torque wrench on the lug nuts and the brake bolts? You could have been killed with the car falling like that, then with the lugs loose you could have killed someone else on the road. 2 major mistakes like that, you should not be working on anyones brakes. Sure hope you got them installed correctly or you are still endangering yourself and others...

Reply to
Rob

yup! That will cause a shaking!

It will cause a few more things to boot! (CRASH!!!!!)

Good thing you caught it!

Reply to
Vash the Stampede

Ya know, Rob, I think someone should make the OP aware of his errors and not hold back like you did! ;)

Reply to
Vash the Stampede

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