Anyone have wobbly repro Magnum road wheels? UPDATE! SOLVED!

[TUFCAT]

I have a set of 15X7 Wheel Vintique Magnum 500 Wheels (bought in 2006) that had no issues at all. They balanced out perfectly twice with minimal weights- - and two different sets of tires.  I had redline radials mounted on them before the white stripes. 

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

10.   I also had a slipped front spring eye bushing in my expensive Eaton leaf springs.  Not sure if this contributed as the springs were changed at the same time as the wheel studs.

Hmmmmm....look anything like this?

[Chatt69chgr]

I would agree with the suggestion to take the rims down to your friendly tire place and check them to see if they are bent.  You don't need to spin them.  Just put them on the machine that does the spinning and slowly rotate.  Rig up a fixture to hold a piece of wood or whatever near the wheel and you will immediately see if the wheel is bent.  Should be possible to see if they are out of round too.  You would check for out of round on the inner bead surface.  Check for bent condition from the outside of the wheel.  And don't mount any tires either.  I wanted to work up a set of steels to use with dog dishes as an alternative set of wheels.  I bought 9 rims from the junkyard.  Found 4 good ones, one good enough for a spare.  Rest were all bent.  Only paid $10 apiece so just took the bent ones back to the yard and got rid of them.  My next door neighbor is the mgr of the tire store I deal with so he let me do my own checking early in the morning right after they opened before any customers got there. 

[1969chargerrtse]

So check this out.  I was putting on new exhaust gaskets on my manifolds.  You know their time was up as they already had 2,500 miles on them.
Anyway, I noticed that one of my trani bolts down near the starter was hanging out.  I mean like within seconds of just falling out of the mount hole, also the lower starter bolt was missing.  I replaced both bolts and finished the gasket job.  Well, 2 weeks later (today) I go for one of my " Charger in the wild " drives for about 2 hours (Of course no one ever sees me?) and I'm thinking is it possible that those missing bolts have anything to do with the vibration over 60mph?   Hmmmm, I'm on a 3 lane highway, early in the am, open road, big engine, fast car, what the heck.  I put my foot down on the fuel, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80!   NO friggin vibration!!   WTF?, so lo and behold, while repairing the exhaust leak I fixed my vibrating problem.  Driving in the car is a whole different feeling for me now.  Before I felt so contained, here I was driving around in a 40 grand classic muscle car ( invested but not necessarily valued at  )and I couldn't go fast?  Who would of thought? Problem solved.

My good buddy Brian (1hot68 ) recommended these gaskets for the car.  If you're putting on exhaust gaskets, use these.  I have nothing but fantastic things about them, you'll put them on once, not watch them blow out like the standard issue pair I used first time.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/PERCY-S-SEAL-4-GOOD-EXHAUST-HEADER-GASKETS-BB-Chrysler_W0QQitemZ250195000077QQihZ015QQcategoryZ33631QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247

Thanks Brian. 

[tan top]

   that was a easy fix ..........  wonder why they backed out though !!! ..think i would check them again after a 100 miles or something , just to see if they had worked loose out of curiosity

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Gotta go out & check mine now!  Good find

[1969chargerrtse]

  that was a easy fix ..........  wonder why they backed out though !!! ..think i would check them again after a 100 miles or something , just to see if they had worked loose out of curiosity

Well I know the big trani bolt didn't have a lock washer on it for some odd reason?  I wonder who's fault that is?  ( That's Mopar people slapping me ).