My whole truck is shaking side to side i balanced tires i brough new roters new ball joint and its still jumping side to side please help
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ANSWERS: 39
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Check universal joints and carrier bearing on your driveshaft.
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make certain your steering box is secured to frame.
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Look at your U clamps on your leaf springs. One may be loose or a rubber bushing on newer models may be worn or gone.
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There are special u-joints on a 4 x 4. If one of them is off, your truck will shake like it is unbalanced.
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May be a broken belt in your tires. Check for bulges on the face of the tires.
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Would U care to tell Us what it is Ur working on??? How about "Bushings in an "A Frame Design" like Chevy or "Bushings" in the "I Beam Design" of Ford??? Then too it would be helpful if U could tell Us how this happened, over 6 months or all of a sudden after U hit a cow??? I mean, it is in Ur Best Interest, not ours! John
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loose wheel bearing and or colaspe lines and restriction in steering hoses.
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My suggestion is to check the universal joints and hub assembley.
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Your u-joints may be wearing out. Have that vehicle been involved in a wreck or fender bender?
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Check your engine mounts, could be loose.
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Could the drive shaft be causing it?
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define shaking. if you hit a bump and set off the shaking and it stops after you may need a center link or ideler arm. and did you check the wheel bearing. I'm assuming from your lack of model info that this is a 4x4 if you have large tires (30's or larger) you will kill your wheel bearing in half the normal time
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All of the above are good, but - are the wheels them selves bent? they can still be balanced, if the operator is an idiot - and many are. But they will run out of true - and shake the truck.
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check lug nuts , pretty common problem with the fast paced underpaid and underskilled shops these days
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Telling us what model/year your truck is would have been helpful. There are lots of answers already given that are plausible. If your truck is of the 1994 and up Dodge Ram 4x4 variety, there are all sorts of bushings and linkages that connect the front axle to the chassis. The most troublesome one is known as the "track bar" that stabilizes the truck from side to side motion. So scary is the failure of the ball joints on each end of the track bar that the resulting motion has become known as the "death wobble".
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it can be one of many things...how old are your tires?? tread seperating can cause this to.. a carrier bearing on the drive line will cause it. sticking break calipers.. wheel bearings in front..
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Check your tie rod ends. Tracking bar. Sway bars.
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U-Joints, Tires out of round, a Rim may be bent, and one thing that would be a pain to check but the pilot bushing maybe out of round. This caused me huge problems once. Good luck...
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i had that same problem then one day i was luckly in a parking lot and i finally had no steering at all . here i found out that all my bolts in my steering box were broke . i replaced them with grade 8 bolts it wasnt to hard it was pretty simple and i havent had that problem ever since
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if your truck has a steering stabilizer - check to see that it is working and that the bushings connecting it to the steering linkage are in good shape.
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Too many different things can cause this problem but the consquence of some of these problems are too serious to take a wait and see approach. Get a professional mechanic to find the problem, even if you go home and fix it yourself. You are going to kill yourself, which of course is your call, but you might take someone else with you.
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http://www.youcarz.com/garage.aspx Just type in your postal code and select the services you need. You'll get a list of the closest repair shops to your house.
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could be a broken push rod i mean you have to give more info
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if it is side to side, you likely have worn out tierod ends or worn out steering knuckles.but knowing what vehicle you have would help alot.
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LOT'S OF GOOD REPLYS HERE BUT YOU REALLY NEED TO GIVE MORE INFO. Is it a violent shake , or a mine shake ? Is it more like a wobble? Or more like a vibration? All different symptoms ,all different causes. just trying to help. be safe!!
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sounds like your talking about front end problems. Like if you try to correct it will start shaking, or maybe if you hit a bump. If that is the case, check steering components including steering gear box, and believe it or not your shocks. If your shocks are so worn they are completely useless and allow the springs to work freely. I have had this experience.
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it maybe your stablers bar it go to your a-arms
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is your lugnuts tight? tire pressures set right?
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take you tires of and get them road force checked on a balancer. i think you only got them spin balanced.
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maybe your tires have slipped belts and are unable to be balanced properly. they would appear balanced on a balancing machine, but as soon as you apply pressure from the weight of the truck, they wobble like crazy.
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I've owned a '98 Ranger 3 ltr automatic xtra cab since it was new. It started a subtle shake around 45k miles and slowly got worse, especially after rotating the tires. It now has 120,000 miles. I have put new tires, rims, shocks, rotors, balanced drive shaft, road force tested, swapped tires around, jacked up rear end and spun tires to 60mph,(no shake), pulled my Drive shaft and was towed down the road at 65mph with engine off, (no shake), replaced all plugs and wires, tranny fluid, flushed rack and pinion, replaced lower ball joints, etc. The truck still shakes. Nobody has been able to help. Now I just live with it. Anybody out there have any bright ideas?
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have you had the drive shaft balanced
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Look at the steering stabilizer. If it is leaking oil, thats the problem. Without a perfect stabilizer, some trucks are impossible to control wheel shimmy. It can become very violent, often refered to as death wobble.
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i think it might be your suspension or you are all out of elignment is out
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Sounds like the belts in your tire have shifted. The repair is to replace tires.
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If your tires are oversized as in most SUv's you may need a steering damper added to your steering linkage.
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does the steering wheel shake while braking and do the tyres wear on the inside? if so its probably caused by toe out, get a wheel alignment
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check sway bar
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Still jumping? OMG
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