Re: vibration thru steering wheel

From: Bill Day (billday@consolidated.net)
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 21:45:57 EDT


I have found that worn shocks can do this as well.. may ride fairly descent
but one good bump and it bumps for a while.

At one point I also noticed I had some broken(no rubber) sway mounts the
replacement of them softened my ride dramatically.

Bill Day

billday@consolidated.net
AIM - BadManD73
'95 Ext Cab 3.9Mag 4x4 Flame Red
----- Original Message -----
From: "andy levy" <andy-dml@levyclan.us>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: DML: vibration thru steering wheel

>
> cwkitts@comcast.net wrote:
>
> > Hey guys, i seem to have a vibration, or something. Kinds feels like the
> > steering column is loose at times. You can feel like "bumping" in the
> > steering wheel. I had in it the shop, they couldnt find anything i
crawled
> > under her and all the bolts i could get to seemed tight. Anybody else
suffer
> > from this prob??
>
> Can you relate it to the front suspension compression/extending? Check
> the intermediate steering shaft - if it wears to a certain point (I
> think the "slip" portion is where it is), it'll do this. Removing &
> reinstalling may be enough to fix it (just jiggles things in place), or
> you may have to replace it outright.
>
> --
> -andy
>
> http://home.twcny.rr.com/andylevy/dakota - andy-dml@levyclan.us
> --------------------------------------------
> "Whatever Adam does, do the opposite and you'll be fine"
> -Bob Tom
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