got my km2s mounted and balanced on thursday. Drove it home perfectly fine from the tire place. The day after, Friday, I did my inner and outer tie rods as well as my swaybar bushings but never got a chance to reinstall my swaybar end links. I brought it to a shop to get an alignment because i always do once i get new tires and then when i was leaving the shop i hit some bumps in the road like normal but my steering wheel started going crazy left and right and I couldn't even hold the wheel, I had to stop to 0mph and start going again for it to stop. My dad was in front of me and he could see my tires going crazy in his rear view mirror.

I brought it back to the shop and left it there over the weekend the guy calls me today and tells me he thinks the tires may not be balanced correctly but when i left the tire shop, the truck drove fine and that was before i even messed with the tie rods. He told me only one of the tires has a weight on the outside where as the other three don't, they only have them on the inside but thats how it left the place they mounted and balanced the KM2s and it drove fine all the way home over bumps and stuff at like 50mph.

Any suggestions on wtf is wrong with the truck? I need to get this thing fixed tomorrow or wednesday because after thanksgiving i don't have a 2nd vehicle to drive.

 

 

Re-check the air pressure in the tires.
You may have a leak around the bead.

 

no leaks. the tire would of gone flat sitting all weekend in a parking lot lol

 

Not really.
A slow leak could take a week or more to go flat.
But loosing 5 lbs over a weekend , and then slowing , is not unheard of.

 

I've never heard of a lower pressure tire making the steering go nuts like that but i'll check anyways when i pick it up tomorrow

 

sounds like a **** poor alignment to me, if the toe isnt set right it can cause that. its referred to as the death wobble.

 

Yeah thats what justin told me, mainly that the caster wasn't set. On the alignment sheet everything is within factory spec though which is weird. I've compared it to the previous alignment and it doesn't seem that far off. I'll post them up here in a sec.

 

on a side note, no pics of the new tires?

 

I have one but its on facebook from my phone so it looks bad i've been waiting to take pics with camera lol


Previous alignment



Saturday's Alignment

 

damn that is weird...

 

could the machines be tossed out of whack or something? idk im stumped lol

first pic wasn't at the same shop.

 

its possible but highly unlikely...if the targets arent set right that might have something to do with it

 

Alright. Im going to take it somewhere else and see if they can figure it out. They've never screwed it up at sears so im going to take it there. Kinda trust them more...idk why i didn't take it there to begin with

 

Joe at Sears at North Shore have him look at it he did mine. sounds like you have death wobble. i got it once in my ranger and i couldn't control it i had to stop.

 

thats way too far for me to drive like this lol or else i would. Peabody is quite the hike. The one near me has a few good guys, I request them to do mine when i bring it in

and yeah, same things happening to mine haha it sucks

 

fixT

 

no more death wobble?

 

So what was it? The alignment?

 

Good deal man

 

nope. Gone.

Nah. It was the balance on the tires. I learned that when mounting new tires bigger than 31" it is a good idea to mount them and drive around like 10 miles before balancing the tires. I brought it back to the shop that mounted and balanced and i told them that and he said a weight must have fallen off which was BS but they rebalanced them free (if they didn't there would have been problems at the place) lol