Front Shimmy
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Just about anything up there...tierod end, ball joint, shock, wheel bearing(s), axle pivot bushing, radius arm bushing. Best thing to do is check everything out until you find something that seems plausible as a cause. Rod ends and ball joints would be my first check. Give the tread on the tire a look. If it shows any signs of "cupping" (which is a sawtooth look to the tops of the tread lugs) on either the inner or outer edges of the tread the balljoints are suspect. Jack the wheel off the ground by lifting at the axle. Try to swing the tires left to right by alternately pushing/pulling on the front and rear of it. If it shifts or there is any "slop" when you do, the tie rod end is suspect. Doing the same thing at the top and bottom of the tire and getting movement reveals a dying balljoint. From there, you are pretty much limited to visual inspection of the radius arm bushings and the axle pivot bushings. A dying shock will allow the truck to bounce more than once or twice after rocking it hard from side to side. If you don't want to do all this yourself, a shop could seek out the problem for you and they would perform these same tests to figure it out.
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Originally Posted by JetBlackBronco
mine does the same thing, my solution is to keep it under 70ish....most of the time. i figure its not the brightest thing to go blinding speeds in a 14 year old vehcle with 125000 miles on it
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Originally Posted by JetBlackBronco
mine does the same thing, my solution is to keep it under 70ish....most of the time. i figure its not the brightest thing to go blinding speeds in a 14 year old vehcle with 125000 miles on it
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