I will echo the possibility of CV's being a suspect. I have a syncro and
when the front outer cv's went bad I had terrible steering wheel vibration.
They went bad at separate times and the symptoms were identical.
Rick K

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 10:22 AM Alex MeVay <alex@mevay.org> wrote:

> > I have been reading Samba posts about vibration, and another suspect is
> the CV joints.  Perhaps raising the back 1.5" is behind this?
>
> I was going to suggest this as a possibility...I have a 1.5" lift too
> and had a lot of vibration that was at wheel speed, but also dependent
> on how much torque was getting to the wheels.  Also, the shifter would
> vibrate a lot, like you mentioned.  I know my CV's were shot.  Did the
> 930 CV upgrade over the weekend and everything is now silky.  I did
> also replace the rear wheels and tires, so I can't rule out a
> tire/balance issue, but I'm pretty sure the CV's were the culprit.
> I'm hoping this will be the end of my CV saga that started with last
> year's broken axle.
>
> Alex
>