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From: chas@ihuxe.UUCP (Charles Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Front-end shake, '84 Tempo
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 09:58:09 EDT
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> It only happens, as I said, only after one wheel hits something. The
> entire car will shake, along with the steering column. After slow down,
> it will return to normal.

Sounds like the shocks (dampers? substitute correct domestic terminology)
are shot.  The symptoms suggest that hitting a bump is setting up a
resonance that the speed of wheel-rotation is maintaining. The dampers
should control this. I'd expect the dampers on a '72 Corolla to be long
gone.

Charlie @ the Death Star, IL.