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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 02:56 PM
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65 mph nibble

Has anyone actually gotten rid of the 70 mph steering wheel shimmy...
 
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 03:09 PM
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Not that I know of.
 
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 03:23 PM
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Mine is in there now for that. I will post back if they get rid of it.
 
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 03:43 PM
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I spend 4 hours last night at my dealers service department while they were trying to fix this problem. Now they want me to come back next week. I don't have much hope that a solution will be found next week. Just more wasted time.
 
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 03:46 PM
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My dealership starting by taking it back to Discount Tire, who are the ones that they went to for my aftermarket wheels and tires.
 
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 03:49 PM
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Has anyone actually gotten rid of the 70 mph steering wheel shimmy
mine still has the DTs
 
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 03:50 PM
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Mine gets that but only occasionally. Is everbody else's constant?
 
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by bigplayrayr
Mine gets that but only occasionally. Is everbody else's constant?
No... but it's there more often than not.
 
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 03:58 PM
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Just heard from my dealer and mine is supposedly finished. According to them the front right tire was low on air and very out of balance. We shall see when I pick it up tonight. I made sure that they road tested it at 70mph, which they said they did.
 
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 04:02 PM
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Mine will be going under the knife for a new steering gear on Monday. It was built after 8/03 which is the cutoff for the bad steering gear. I told the service Manager, that I work at ford and I 've seen it first hand, If they have old parts laying they will eventually run them. So he agreed to give it a shot...
 
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Old Jun 10, 2004 | 04:22 PM
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Mine does almost all the time. 65-75mph it seems worse in hot weather...
 
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Old Jun 11, 2004 | 06:16 AM
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Follow Up: I got mine back yesterday and it rides like a dream now. Glad it was just a tire balance and air pressure problem.
 
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Old Jun 11, 2004 | 07:26 AM
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3rd time is the charm...I hope????????

Mine is going back for the 3rd time on Tuesday. I am going to a different dealer since my original dealer did not have a Hunter GSP 9700 for road force balancing. The original dealer just rebalanced the tires. I plan on putting new tires on my truck but I am not changing out the stockers until this issue is resolved.
 
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Old Jun 11, 2004 | 04:00 PM
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I had this problem for the first 10,000 miles until I had the wheels ballanced. I tried an alignment after I had my daystar installed first and that did not work. Rides smooth as silk now.
 
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Old Jun 11, 2004 | 08:21 PM
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what kind of tires and what air pressure are you guys running....I just checked the pressure in my tires, two fronts 38lbs, one rear has 40 the other 35. As soon as i get off work, I will fix that, with about 40lbs in all 4...Crossing my fingers
 
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