Vibration
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Vibration
2003 X 7.3L 195,000 miles 4X4 Limited. Bought it new in 2002
A little background:
My son ran this truck off an 8' cliff - trying to stop on ice. about 2 years ago. It landed, believe it or not, on all four wheels. This bent all four wheels.
So now I have four steel wheels on it. I've driven it with no issues for almost two years.
It developed a vibration at 60 and up and started wandering.
I replaced both ball joints. This cured the wandering issue. The clutches in the rear diff were burned up - (another son getting it stuck and abuse issue.)
Had that fixed. Still had the vibration. Took it to the dealer. They used a laptop and sensors to zero in on the vibration. They took the driveshaft off and sent it to a shop, it checked out ok. Still vibrating. I took it hunting and then put it back in the dealer far further research. They took the driveshaft to a different shop. That shop balanced the shaft.
No more vibrations - or any other problems. The truck feels like new.
A little background:
My son ran this truck off an 8' cliff - trying to stop on ice. about 2 years ago. It landed, believe it or not, on all four wheels. This bent all four wheels.
So now I have four steel wheels on it. I've driven it with no issues for almost two years.
It developed a vibration at 60 and up and started wandering.
I replaced both ball joints. This cured the wandering issue. The clutches in the rear diff were burned up - (another son getting it stuck and abuse issue.)
Had that fixed. Still had the vibration. Took it to the dealer. They used a laptop and sensors to zero in on the vibration. They took the driveshaft off and sent it to a shop, it checked out ok. Still vibrating. I took it hunting and then put it back in the dealer far further research. They took the driveshaft to a different shop. That shop balanced the shaft.
No more vibrations - or any other problems. The truck feels like new.
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I don't know why it was out of balance. I didn't even ask them. The problem is, I bought the 2011 F350. It's my daily driver now. The X is our camp-mobile. I've got two sons. They use it. One of them has a boat. If they screw something up, they'll tell me, but I really don't know what kind of abuse it gets. We live in Colorado and they take it to some pretty knarly places. I guess my point was that it took took two driveline shops to actually get it right.
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Considering the 90% of service places are incompetent you got away pretty cheap as far as time is concerned. Vibrations are inherently hard to diagnose so all in all you are lucky. Maybe you should let the kids deal with it next time and maybe they won't be so quick to screw it up.
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I just had this same problem. Brought it to one shop after I replaced the U-Joints (NAPA's Best), they said it was good to go and within spec. Then, replaced a bunch of parts and no dice. Brought the driveshaft to another shop (same company; different location). This time, they found the driveshaft out of balance and out of round (0.006"). Spec on the driveshaft was 0.005". This shop had a faster balancer (up to 4,000RPM or something like that). They also replaced the NAPA U-Joints with Spicer U-Joints. This fixed it.
Glad to hear you didn't have to guess and check at all (ie. Throw parts at it).
Glad to hear you didn't have to guess and check at all (ie. Throw parts at it).
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