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Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578167
07/21/19 01:51 AM
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Screw the radiater cap off, and drive a chevey in under it, tighten and good for another 300 thousand

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578214
07/21/19 07:13 AM
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fire up the banjo's boys.









Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578216
07/21/19 07:17 AM
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Death wobble can be 1 thing or a combination of several, in my 3500 dodge it was ball joints, a worn tire, and play in the steering gear box. mine shook so bad once I had it fixed the steering box was cracked. good luck, its frustrating!
RR

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Ohiowoodchuck] #6578220
07/21/19 07:22 AM
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To tell if its the track bar, start the truck and turn the steering wheel, if the truck moves sideways over the tires as the wheel is turned the trackbar needs replaced.
RR

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578235
07/21/19 07:53 AM
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We put new ends on track bar a month ago .new tires stopped it .i see his truck in my drivway this morning so he's back safe

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578338
07/21/19 10:27 AM
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Glad he got it sorted out.


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Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578362
07/21/19 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Bigfoot
We put new ends on track bar a month ago .new tires stopped it .i see his truck in my drivway this morning so he's back safe


All the extra work and it turned out to be tires or, more likely, one tire in particular. I wonder if there wasn't a visible bulge from a belt breaking or something on one of them.

Glad he's back home.


Eh...wot?

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578535
07/21/19 03:48 PM
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All you need to do to prevent this death wobble issue is to dump the blue oval before it gets a bunch of miles on it and buy something, anything else.

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578580
07/21/19 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Bigfoot
We put new ends on track bar a month ago .new tires stopped it .i see his truck in my drivway this morning so he's back safe


Glad he’s home....now you can trade it in for a GMC....the extra money is worth it.


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Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: pcr2] #6578586
07/21/19 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by pcr2
fire up the banjo's boys.




Thought I was a good trapper until I started trapping coyotes......
Thought I was a good bowhunter until I targeted mature bucks....
Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Lugnut] #6578647
07/21/19 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Lugnut
Originally Posted by Bigfoot
We put new ends on track bar a month ago .new tires stopped it .i see his truck in my drivway this morning so he's back safe


All the extra work and it turned out to be tires or, more likely, one tire in particular. I wonder if there wasn't a visible bulge from a belt breaking or something on one of them.

Glad he's back home.

An awful lot of people looked at them tires and could find nothing wrong with them he had them rotated and bslanced and nobody could see any thing wrong with them and that had no effect on the wobble

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Nessmuck] #6578650
07/21/19 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Nessmuck
Originally Posted by Bigfoot
We put new ends on track bar a month ago .new tires stopped it .i see his truck in my drivway this morning so he's back safe


Glad he’s home....now you can trade it in for a GMC....the extra money is worth it.

We have discussed that at lenghth [Linked Image]
I send him this meme quite often .that ford syndrome comes from his mothers side of the family. My side is all chevy with a sprinkle of cummins motors that happen to be in dodge trucks

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578655
07/21/19 08:53 PM
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what does a defective tire have to do with driving a ford? glad he made it home.


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Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578666
07/21/19 09:07 PM
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Kind of sounds like they but all the defective tires on Fords. ;
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Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578668
07/21/19 09:13 PM
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Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578676
07/21/19 09:22 PM
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Hot roads does stuff to tires. And heat can be as rough on batteries as cold weather.

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578696
07/21/19 09:48 PM
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The tires that this happened with was Micky Thompsons with near 1/4" tread . I cant see a deffect . I cant get my head around is how a tire with no visible deffects can cause a catastrophic shake in the vehicle that is strong enough to rip the steering wheel out of your hands.when placed either the front or back

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578740
07/21/19 11:01 PM
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You may have to get an extra rim and try them one at a time on a balancer to find the one outa whack. If they don't have air in them it might not show. Have to agree it sounds crazy. You would think it would be something the size of a softball to cause that much havoc. Maybe you need to put this on the strange/unexplained stories thread, lol. Good luck trying to figure it out. Just glad its home and safe instead of out there.

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578769
07/21/19 11:35 PM
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I'm going to agree with Foxpaw, sometimes just rolling them across a level floor will show a wobble that shouldn't be there. We pulled a trailer tire Friday that when we jacked it up and spun the tire you could see an off set to one side in a section of the tread.

Re: Broke down in Dunbar west Virginia F250 death wobb [Re: Bigfoot] #6578816
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you can see it in dust on the tire sometimes. dust will have bare spots in it where the tire is out of round.


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