Ok,
About a few thousand miles ago I noticed a driveline vibration in my truck. The wheel, seat,floor is where it was felt. The dealer re-balanced the tires and re-indexed them. This did not help. The vibration was the strongest at speeds in excess of 60mph. The second time it went back to the dealer they hooked it up to that special vibration sensor unit and took it for a drive. That produced an eror code for the drive shaft being out of round. The driveshaft was replaced with no change in the vibration to the truck. Now is where I start to get frustrated. They then rebalanced the tires again and found one of the tires to be bad and had me see the local Firestone dealer who after some smooth talking on my part replaced all four tires free of charge instead of just the one. The trucks vibration is a little better in the wheel but is still present in the seat,floor, and I can even put my hand on the passanger seat and feel it, hell I can even watch the seat vibrate.The truck is a 2000 f-250 SD 4x4 V-10 with 17,000 miloes on it. I noticed the vibe was a little worse after lubing the brake slides at 15,000 miles. There did not appear to be any hung up calipers.Please help me out with this one. They are trying to get ahold of a ford engineer to come look at it. That means they will say, Live with it! It just makes me angry to ride in my buddies F-250 sd trucks and have them be smooth as silk.Let me know what It may be. The alignment is fine also.

 

I feel your pain.My truck does the same thing.I basicly got the live with it excuse too.

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 21-Sep-02 AT 08:50 PM (EST)]Are the brake dishes out of balace.

 

These kinds of problems can be alittle tricky to find!
I start with the obvious,tires,shocks,wheels bent,dirt on back of wheels.
Now the harder ones
balljoints or pivot points as we call them now
Driveshaft
driveline angles
u-joints
rotor run out
rear diff flange runout
wheel bearings
Flywheel balance or engine balance
Torque converter out of balance

We assume that dealers chk everything but they don't or don't want to be bothered to do it ,thats why they need reminded sometimes.

I problably forgot a few

Rich

 

>Are the brake dishes out of balace.


...and have you checked the silverware?

sorry...

 

Monsta! Monsta! thats baaddddddddddd! careful I might get ya with another sick joke of my own.Supermonsta!

give the guy a break ,he must have just got done doing
the dishes for his wife or significant other .

I saw the opening but didn't jump on it,he who hesitates is lost!!!!!

Rich

 

See Ford Recall 00B53. Some 2000 F250's the front driveshaft was ONE INCH too long. Causes BAD vibrations. Low volume recall. Only 272 vehicles affected. Maybe you're one of them?

Bob

 

Thanks for the replys! I am just so frustrated at this point! But I will prevail, if ya think of anything else let me know.Thanks.
Brian