bridgewater NJ FD owner needs assistance
 

hi guys,
i just bought a 93 FD and it has stock rims with drag radials on the back. on the way home, it was "swaying". so now i'm paranoid the bushings and stuff are bad. my friend thinks its because the front and back tires have different heights. fronts are 205-55-16 and rears are 255-50-16. overall height is different by about 2 inches.

anyone local would let me put on stock or stockish rims to make sure my new ride is good?

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Don't know where bridgewater is, but this guy is in Blackwood NJ and he's very good. Jim at JPR imports (856-227-1808). www.jprimports.com.

thanks for the info (thats a hike ).
i don't really need a shop; i'd just like to swap tires for a trip down the road to make sure the swaying stops with normal tires.

were you driving in the rain?

hmm bridgewater, is that by toms river?

hi, no it was dry. i was going around 80 mph. the ET street radials are very soft. i think that coupled with the difference in tire height has something to do with it.

bridgewater is in someset county, about 45 miles due west of jersey city (my brother lives in JC on montgomery) via rt 78.

o, so you just want to swap tires?

any shop can do that, you need tires or something?

if you want alignment, any shop can do that too, no need to go to an FD specialty shop..

I would try balancing and alignment first, which can be done by any shop. Oh and hello, fellow Somerset county-er!

haha thanks!
maybe i was unclear.
i just wanted to use someones rims and tires for a 2 minute trip down the road to see if the swaying stops. but i think i'm just gonna buy some yokahama AO32R's 245-45-16. i will probably sell those mickey thompson ET street radials.

im in whitehouse station near flemington. about a 10 minute trip up rt 22. i have my stock wheels with good tires sitting in my shed. give me a call 908 797 3920 and you can come swap them on.

steve

did you happen to drive on 78? cuz whenever i drive on that highway i feel the car swaying because of the waves made by the trucks that pass by

steve, thank you!!!

i was on gsp by the way

raise the tire pressure. that is normal for drag radials sometimes even when you have normal pressure in them.....

underhood looks nice!

how'd you see underhood? :)
tires have 32 psi. thought that would be enough. these are radials, not bias ply. i'm still thinking its from two different heights of tires front to back.

i'm good what can i say. crank up the pressure to 40-45. the sidewalls are real soft, my old M&H drag radials did the same thing.......