Worse problem ever happened to me on highway

[TYTILIDIE]

So a close friend of mine gives me a call this afternoon asking me if I can pick him up from DIA. Me being the great guy i am say yes. His plane gets here at 9:40pm. I left my house at 8:45. I get about 40-50 miles form home and Im doing about 100 when all of a sudden my truck pulls extremely hard to the right, had there been a car in the right lane I may not be here right now. So I let off and continue on at 75(the speed limit). After another mile, it started shaking REALLY bad, it almost felt like the lugs came loose. So I pull over and limp it to this gas station. It wobbled almost the whole way there. I get out and check everything out thoroughly, even had the cashier come out and move my wheel back and fourth while I looiked at the linkage. I couldnt really see anything wrong except maybe some play in the gear box. Funny thing about this is that today I put on my ZR1 wheels. The rear left tire has always gone flat sitting on the parts truck so I took it to a tire shop. They pulled the tire and found an easy pound of fix a flat in there. It had eaten away some of the wheel. Ive never used it before so I have no idea where it came from. He took it all out and cleaned it allup. Re-balanced and I was on my way, point is, I never had this problem with the Z06 wheels. Im not sure what to really think about htis. After Iimped to DIA at a woppin 60mph, I picked up my friend and went 60 on the way home. At one point just as we neared the edge of Denver I decided to go 70, it did it again, it was violent as hell and very scary, didnt pull to either side though this time. My friend is a pretty experienced mechanic and he was prettty much clueless. Needless to say we went 60 the whole way home and it didnt do it again. Any thoguhts on what could be going on? I was wondering if maybe the ZR1 wheels are too heavy for the front end and maybe a steering stabilizer is needed? I drove a lifted truck with no stabilizer and the wheels felt somethign like that, I know its a whole different beast but just thinking out loud.

 

[Bill Z]

Re: Worse problem ever happened to me on highway

Re-balanced and I was on my way, .

Maybe one of the balancing weights came off at 100MPH. Try having it rechecked.

 

[Quickstop [UK]]

Re: Worse problem ever happened to me on highway

I had the wobble once - very scary. I put it down to some mud or something stuck in the wheel as it disappeared. Can't remember going into mud with it though. If you did get some mud that shook iteslf loose and it got stuck in your brake caliper then that would cause the pull maybe?

 

['JustDreamin']

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If you just swapped wheels, I'd check your that your lugnuts are all tight....

Aluminum wheels really need to be retorqued after 25 to 50 miles to allow them to "seat" fully.

My previous employer learned that the hard way. We built a satellite truck on a F-650 chassis, with very pretty Alcoa wheels. Had dual rear wheels, which we had to remove to put the box / dish setup on the chassis. They got remounted and retorqued to spec. However, after about 200 miles, one of the 4 rear tires parted company with the truck (the other on that side didn't manage to escape before they got stopped). The Alcoa specs call for the wheels to be retorqued after 25, 50, and 100 miles.

Also, here in the Baltimore area, there was a rash of MTA Buses loosing wheels & tires while on the road. Had a few injuries. Wasn't just 1 bus, but like over a dozen. All came down to proper wheel torque.

Granted, both of those applications have much higher wheel loading that your Ty, but it could be something similar. Or something completely different, don't know.

'JustDreamin'

 

[QWERTYphoon]

Re: Worse problem ever happened to me on highway

I had the same problem in one of my buddies car right after he got new rims. About 100 miles later the two front rims were not tight any more and made the car shake and loud banging. They towed it, took it to the dealer, took two minutes to figure out and cost him hundreds. Did you check your pitman arm? How about tie rod ends (probably not if you can turn both wheels)?

 

[TYTILIDIE]

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OK I just got in from inspecting things. Obviously I couldnt do that great of a job in a parking lot in the middle of the night with no tools. I have found nothing wrong. I talked to another friend of mine today and he said that if there is enough fixaflat in one of hte other tires that it s possible thats whats causing it. This morning I got about a mile from my house and the whole way I heard this kind of a knocking sound. I couldnt pin point it but it sounded like the front right if I had to say. Wheels are on good and tight. I shook the truck down for the last hour and just cant really find anything. I checked the rear as well, everything loooks great.

 

[TYTILIDIE]

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Just did some more looking, it makes this knocking sound when turning to the left but not to the right. The knock sounds kind of like a horse galloping but kind of quiet. Wheel bearings? Front diff? CV?

 

[Flyin Ryan]

Re: Worse problem ever happened to me on highway

sucks mike.. seems you have horrible luck man.. try driving with your propshaft out of balanced. I drove it maybe ten miles no faster then 10 mph and I couldn't see the dash it was a complete blurry

 

[dogboy]

Re: Worse problem ever happened to me on highway

had similar on my road car,high speed pull one way then ok for
some time but got worse finaly had to limp home from a show
when i stripped it down i found one of the wheel bearing races
had totally disintegrated was luck to have caught it as we usualy
drive like nutters on the way home

 

[TYTILIDIE]

Re: Worse problem ever happened to me on highway

Well, I pulled the wheel bearings and spun em and they made a weird rattling sound. So I put newones on the passenger side and drove the truck. It still is making that knocking sound but took it up to 80 and it seemed ok. I may have to switch out the other side as well. I just bought these bearings in friggin April.

 

[ViciousV6]

Re: Worse problem ever happened to me on highway

Well, I pulled the wheel bearings and spun em and they made a weird rattling sound. So I put newones on the passenger side and drove the truck. It still is making that knocking sound but took it up to 80 and it seemed ok. I may have to switch out the other side as well. I just bought these bearings in friggin April.

Wheel hub could of been the source for the pulling one way hard! Usually steering or hub in that case. Noise could be alot also could of been something damaged because of the bad hub!

Ralph

 

[up2nuthingud]

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i would def try swapping the wheels and tires back off to see if thats the issue.

 

[SY2455]

Re: Worse problem ever happened to me on highway

I get about 40-50 miles form home and Im doing about 100 when all of a sudden my truck pulls extremely hard to the right, had there been a car in the right lane I may not be here right now. So I let off and continue on at 75(the speed limit). After another mile, it started shaking REALLY bad, it almost felt like the lugs came loose.

Have you check the upper A-arm bushings? This is what mine did when the pass side upper bushings came apart.

 

[sleepy]

Re: Worse problem ever happened to me on highway

The clicking noise may be a CV joint, or a bearing. If you just had a bearing replaced recently, it may be an issue with the quality level of the parts.