I took the my caravan to the parents house Sunday morning, through about seven inches of snow. I got home and drove it to work the next day and when I got up to about 60-70 mph every thing starts shaking, so I figured that there must be some snow in the tires, and with the weather being in 40s-50s through out this week it would melt the snow out of the tires. Well it's been a couple of days of 40+ degree weather and the damn thing still shakes something fierce. Could I have just knocked a weight off of the tire?

 

Sure. Did you look in the rims for ice?

 

So its a broken belt inthe tire ..flung weight or broke rim. ifeveryhting runing smooth til 60ish then i have those checked.

 

did a walk around yesterday, and the weight(s) were missing from one of the tires

 

Ok bad news...went to get the tire balanced and the lip on the drum, by the dust sheild, well half of it is missing. So does any have any pointers on doing drum breaks.

 

well its not too tuff . You may beed a special Spring clip tool. If you got the skill you remove the springs and retention clip on the shoes and put it back together like you removed it. It may take you a while. I would ahve someone there that knows something about it too help.1st time i did mine it took me like 3 hours.)