I have a vibration at 65 mph... being checked today... I had a conversation with the local service rep and the regional Ford rep... the Ford rep had the same problem with his truck, needed to get the vehicle on a special tire balace (only some dealers have this device) it will tell you which tire need to go at what location on the truck... weird stuff but it fixed the problem on the Ford Rep's truck. Servive manager asked the Ford Rep what do they do when the tires need to be rotated... answer is the same... machine will tell you what corner to put the tire. Would think it would be the same, but I guess not...

Does this make any sense???

 

no, not to me.

I had a problem a long time ago where some Ford dealers could not balance 9" wide wheels. I had the 17x9 Cobra R wheels and I found out Ford was sending my car down the street to do balances.

My Dad got the same kind of run around from Cadillac once and what they did was take the wheels off the car, put on a lift and get it up to the rev where the vibration was, guess what? it still vibrated. Sometimes this is the kind of nonsense you have to do to get a dealer to fix something like in this case a motor mount.

There must be some kind of quota-system where by only 1 in 10 Ford mechanics can even consider the possibility that a vibrations could be something other than a tire out of balance

 

I don't have the vibration, but I've felt the rub... build date 10/03
After 2200 miles, I haven't noticed it recently. I had written it off as imagining things until I read this.

 

Guigster,

Did you ever get the rubbing noise in your steering wheel fixed? I had my steering rack replaced for a clunk I was hearing in my steering wheel but after the rack was replaced I now have the rubbing sound along with the clunk. Ford hotline wants the dealer to replace the rack again. I was hoping that you might tell me this rubbing sound goes away after a few miles and I'll just live with the clunking sound.

 

I had the steering rack replaced and it had gone away for a little while. Then it came back at a lesser intensity. But it is currently not there. It seems to only rear its head when it's really, really cold outside. My own personal analysis of the probelm is that there is something rubber inside the column that expands and rubs when it's super cold. It hasn't been back bad enough or long enough for me to take it back in. If it's what I think it is, I don't believe it will do any damage. It's been over a year since I took it in for this.

 

Sometimes, I'll fix a little roughness or binding in the steering wheel by using a slurry of rear axle friction modifier and Dextron transmission fluid. Disconnect the lines at the rack, turn the wheels back and forth several times to purge as much fluid as possible, reconnect the lines and use about an ounce or two of friction modifier and about half a quart of Dextron III. Refill the rest of the way with transmission fluid, not P/S fluid. Ford has a service bulletin out for this concern pertaining to LS' and Aviators, but not for the F150.

 

Would you believe that this G-damn rubbing problem has reared its ugly head again?! I am 925 miles from 36,000 miles and now this. It can't be attributed to cold weather like I first diagnosed, because it has been between 55-60 degrees the past few days.

 

I took the truck back for this rubbing problem. Of course it didn't do it AGAIN while it was being test driven. They called me back today and said, "You're not going to get rid of it. It's a characteristic of the truck." If that's not a bull***** cop-out answer, I don't know what is.