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Old 07-28-2011, 10:01 AM
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Good to hear. I would imagine that after the shake you said you had it worked its way out of balance so take it back and get them to do it again and should clear it up.
 
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Old 07-28-2011, 08:38 PM
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Yeah, I think they are out of balance. I don't think it helped that the shop put the balance beads in without taking the sticky weights off.
 
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Old 07-30-2011, 12:53 PM
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have the exact same problem!!! thought it was the struts, had those chaged, nope still prob, had the springs changed...nope still there, and the steering wheel column changed...nope shocks done..nope drive shaft rebalanced, nope.......sway bar, nope, tires balced, still there, bearings, still there, so after all said and done, and $2100.00 dollars, dealer cant ifnd anything, they had the truck for a week, said its because of the lift, so im just trying to get used to it!!!!!! just dont want to see you blow crap loads of money like i did, oh i also changed my rotors and pads thinking it might help, yeah no help!!!! sorry hope this helps you though!
 
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Old 07-30-2011, 08:20 PM
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No offense or anything stx but it sounds like your lift was very poorly installed. If you did it yourself i would get it to a 4x4 shop and have them check it over and if a shop did it I would take it to another shop for their opinion and back charge the first place if they did screw it up. The lift should not being doing that plus acw said it basically fixed his problem he just needs them rebalanced and have the beads or extra weighs removed.
 
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Old 08-02-2011, 07:19 AM
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This same thing happened on my truck. After balancing the tires 2x i was about to start tearing stuff apart but i thought i would try a different shop to balance the tires. Well the mechanic balancing the tires tore all the tires down and found that the strap that holds the TPMS sensors were loose in 3 tires. One he tightened everything and put loctite on all screws everything has been good with no steering wheel shake in 5000mi.
 
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