Violent Front End Shake?
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Violent Front End Shake?
i have a 93 f250HD 2wd, every now a then when hitting a large bump in road or hole, the front end feels like its going to come apart! the steering wheel shakes back and forth along with the tires. when i come to a stop, i can take off again and its fine!? tie rods? ball joints? any help will be helpful
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Windsor, had the same thing happen to my wife's 96 explorer right after the front brakes were done. Only happened the one time and it was right after picking it up from the shop. Hasn't done it since. Front end checked out tight. A friend has a 00 Dodge Ram 1500 that had the same problem. He changed shocks, springs, and tires. With each item changed the frequeny of occurrences decreased until it stopped all together. He's not sure what stopped it and didn't get a definitive answer from shop either. He had no aftermarket mods. Good luck.
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Our Explorer had/has none of those problems. It just did it that one time. My buddy's truck hasn't had it happen again since he changed the items I mentioned. That was a year ago. He had his front end checked out. Checked good. But I guess Windsor, it wouldn't hurt to have the front end checked out.
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Im gonna have to agree with Greg250. Its the ball joints!
The same exact thing happend to me exactly the way you described it. I coudnt figure it out but one day I jacked the truck up and gave them a wiggle up and down and sure enough the passenger sid ball joint was compleatly wasted. It had a little over 1/4 inch of play in it. This is not impossable to fix yourself but you need alot of time and know some one with a ball joint press. By the way when you go to put new ones back in,save yourself some headaches, drill and tap the bottom of the new ones and add a Low Clearence grease fitting to be able to grease them in the future and keep them from wearing as fast. This is something Ford should have done to begin with, but thats why you come back to Ford and pay them the big bucks for them to do it
The same exact thing happend to me exactly the way you described it. I coudnt figure it out but one day I jacked the truck up and gave them a wiggle up and down and sure enough the passenger sid ball joint was compleatly wasted. It had a little over 1/4 inch of play in it. This is not impossable to fix yourself but you need alot of time and know some one with a ball joint press. By the way when you go to put new ones back in,save yourself some headaches, drill and tap the bottom of the new ones and add a Low Clearence grease fitting to be able to grease them in the future and keep them from wearing as fast. This is something Ford should have done to begin with, but thats why you come back to Ford and pay them the big bucks for them to do it
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