Steering Wheel vibration
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Mountain Pass
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From: Port St Lucie, FL
Steering Wheel vibration
I need some help here guys. I have a terrible vibration in my steering wheel, but not only in the steering wheel, I can feel it in whole truck realy. I have had my tires balanced and aligned now for the third time and this time they road forced balanced them and said they were still balanced. Are they just pulling my leg here that there ballanced or could somthing else be messed up. The only other thing they told me was that it looked like my steering stabilizer was leaking or somthing and going bad. Could this affect the truck this much and cause a terrible vibration? thank you in advanced to any help.
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Yes, that could cause the vibration.
It'd be easy to find out, just disconnect the steering stabilizer and do a quick road test.
Alignment, tire run out and trueness and worn suspension components can also cause vibration.
Instead of telling the shop to balance your tires again, tell them about the vibration and see what they find.
I had a case where my truck was pulling to the right kind of hard, started right after I rotated the tires. I took it to an alignment shop, they aligned it and it still pulled to the right. Turned out I had a bad tire. We put that tire on the back axle, the pull went away.
It'd be easy to find out, just disconnect the steering stabilizer and do a quick road test.
Alignment, tire run out and trueness and worn suspension components can also cause vibration.
Instead of telling the shop to balance your tires again, tell them about the vibration and see what they find.
I had a case where my truck was pulling to the right kind of hard, started right after I rotated the tires. I took it to an alignment shop, they aligned it and it still pulled to the right. Turned out I had a bad tire. We put that tire on the back axle, the pull went away.
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Mountain Pass
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From: Port St Lucie, FL
Ok so if I just disconnect it, then it will be ok to drive to see if that is the problem? I mean were not just talking about any old vibration, this is like a shaking. If you look at the passenger seat when no ones in it and im on the highway you can see it shaking. I guess I might of worded it wrong in my first post but it is pretty bad. I can start to feel it at like 60 then it just gets worst the faster I go. Worst comes to worse I guess I just try to let the shop figure it out.
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check your tie rod ends also. Jack up one side and see if you get any movement left to right. I only have 75K miles and have had to replace both tie rod ends at 65k and the drag link at 45K. I also had that type of vibration with both problems, dont ignore it or let it go too long because it will ruin tires really, really quickly. Dont ask me how I know that!!!!
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Mountain Pass
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From: Port St Lucie, FL
Alright have to try that when I get home from work. Ya I can imagine it will wear them out and these are almost new so I hope to get this fixed very soon. There is only 38K on the truck but I guess anything is possible. Thank you for the help and keep any other suggestions comming.
