Justin S2

I swapped over a manual rack a few years ago into my S2. After doing it, I noticed the steering wheel would shake a lot at highway speeds - I thought this was normal. Well, recently I adjusted my front wheel bearings and I noted that the collar was too tight against the bearing. After making following the shop manual and readjusting, the wheel doesn't shake anymore.

Also, I was getting a clunking/metallic spring noise when I would brake (the noise would occur when the nose would dive) or when I was going over a speedbump. I tried everything, replacing struts, removing the swaybar, double checking the torques on everything, rebuilding the front brake calipers, etc. The culprit was that my rennbay ball joints needed a little bit more grease in them! Simple fix.

I guess sometimes it makes sense to look at the simple/cheap things first! I am posting this to help out the next guy - I couldn't find a lot of information for these two issues when I searched.