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Oct 9, 2007 | 03:17 PM

DANA60

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Vibration question

I have an '04 150 4x4 with the 4.6 auto and i get a small but noticeable vibration in the steering wheel and i can feel it in the gas pedle starting at 48-60 mph. It seems to do it more when i'm on the gas. i know vibration questions are hard but any help is appreciated.

Oct 9, 2007 | 05:29 PM

big red c222

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How many miles? The first time I noticed mine, was after I rotated the tires. I rotated them back and it stopped. A few months later when it when in for inspection it needed ball joints. It had about 50,000 miles. No more vibration. Tires might just need balanced or front end alignment

Oct 9, 2007 | 06:08 PM

DANA60

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I just bought it and it has 38,000 miles. The dealer did put new Hankook tires on it maybe i should rotate them?

Oct 9, 2007 | 06:38 PM

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rotate and get them balanced...these trucks are very prone to vibrations from tires.

Oct 9, 2007 | 06:55 PM

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If you do things yourself. I would try to rotate and see what happens. If your getting someone else to do it. Maybe you can get the dealer to rotate and check the balance for free. Like Tylus said it's not uncommon. If you do a search I'll bet you find a few threads about it.

Oct 9, 2007 | 08:50 PM

DANA60

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i hope its that easy. Is that were most peoples vibration problems come from? I wasnt shure if it was the trans?

Oct 9, 2007 | 09:20 PM

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You can pretty muck rule out the tranny. I wouldn't worry about that. I don't know what everyone else did. I only know my own situation. If you get bored, do that search on this site for vibration in the front end. In the past I've spent an hour or more at a time, just sifting thru the old threads. There is a lot of info in there.