another death wobble question?
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another death wobble question?
i just fixed my tie rod bushings, checked ball joints & tie rod ends. all are good. but just noticed my shock on my drive side is not tight..
i can twist it around but the other side is really tight & i cant twist at all. could this cause the death wobble?
also i took off my tires & cleaned out all the mud there was tons caked in there but still didnt fix the wobble it did make it a little better but i still have it. on my drive side roater the mud tore it up bad could a bad rotor also cause this wobble?
i can twist it around but the other side is really tight & i cant twist at all. could this cause the death wobble?
also i took off my tires & cleaned out all the mud there was tons caked in there but still didnt fix the wobble it did make it a little better but i still have it. on my drive side roater the mud tore it up bad could a bad rotor also cause this wobble?
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i think a bad rotor would only make for funny stops (like, lunge sort of stops) or you'd feel it in the brake pedal (would shuffle your foot around until the truck is stopped). all the death wobbles i've had were because of bad shocks, so yes, your shock may very well be shot. if the ball joints, tie rod ends, wheel bearings, and everything else is fine, then probably shocks.
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when i speed up to around 50mph now it starts shaking side to side but feels like its just the drive side tire doing this. before i took the mud out of inside my tire it could only get up to about 40 before getting wobbley.
wheres my track bar at?
wheres my track bar at?
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the track bar goes from the passenger's side of the axle to the driver's side of the frame. if it's a shake in the steering, it could either be a tire out of balance or like Justin's Green Truck said, a bad rotor. have the tires been balanced on your truck?
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no they havent been balanced since ive owned it. i heard my truck dont got a track bar cause its a f250?
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it may not have a track bar. i had one 77 f250 highboy in my life and my uncle turned around and sold it before i had a good look at it. clean the tires off so there's no mud and bring it to a tire shop. they'll balance all the tires for a pretty cheap price. i balance my own tires (using my buddy's tire balancer) and i never have any shaking problems anymore.
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it may not have a track bar. i had one 77 f250 highboy in my life and my uncle turned around and sold it before i had a good look at it. clean the tires off so there's no mud and bring it to a tire shop. they'll balance all the tires for a pretty cheap price. i balance my own tires (using my buddy's tire balancer) and i never have any shaking problems anymore.
thanks. im just going to replace the shocks and im getting a new rotor anyway ill do that too.
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Another remote possibility is a bad tire. Sometimes a belt in a tire can break and go un-noticed until it actually shows up that you can see or blows out. The other time they are noticed is when vehicles start to drive terrible and are taken in to get balanced. Or it's possible a wheel is bent.
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Another remote possibility is a bad tire. Sometimes a belt in a tire can break and go un-noticed until it actually shows up that you can see or blows out. The other time they are noticed is when vehicles start to drive terrible and are taken in to get balanced. Or it's possible a wheel is bent.
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Last time I checked a F250 (leaf spring front end) does not have a track bar, that's a
F150 (coils and radius arms) item only. But I have been wrong before....
Yes it could be a shock, but sounds like a warped front rotor since you have no wheel bearing noise right? The brake pedal will pulse when braking when they are warped.
Since you just had a jack near the front end, I hope you quick checked the front wheel bearings? With no load on the tire grab top and bottom and ck for play or use a 4 way at the bottom.
But probably a separated cord in the tire, get the hubby to swap front and rear tires and test drive it again. Good call edwin and buck...
And ck the steering shaft u-joint, the one between the firewall connection and steering box. At least you know its not the tie rods, even ck the "maybe" frame crack?
F150 (coils and radius arms) item only. But I have been wrong before....
Yes it could be a shock, but sounds like a warped front rotor since you have no wheel bearing noise right? The brake pedal will pulse when braking when they are warped.
Since you just had a jack near the front end, I hope you quick checked the front wheel bearings? With no load on the tire grab top and bottom and ck for play or use a 4 way at the bottom.
But probably a separated cord in the tire, get the hubby to swap front and rear tires and test drive it again. Good call edwin and buck...
And ck the steering shaft u-joint, the one between the firewall connection and steering box. At least you know its not the tie rods, even ck the "maybe" frame crack?
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Have you checked your steering stabalizer shock? Do you even have one on the truck? If that shock is worn out and not providing any dampening then the truck will shake, sometimes violently if the front end or tires are'nt in good shape. Some trucks run 2 satabalizers just to keep the front end under control. My first 78 F150 with 38" mudders would litterly hop from side to side when the stabalizer shocks were disconnected, I had to run 2 of them to keep it under control.
