If you have the nibble and haven't gotten your tires road force balanced, you need to try it. I had a shudder/nibble at 65mph+ until I got my tires road forced balanced today--now I can't get the nibble to come back.

Thanks to everyone on the forum, as this is where I learned about this potiential fix .

Took my truck to the dealership twice before with no fix--sometimes I wonder if those guys could fix anything without a TSB, as that is all they were perepared to do--I even asked them to check my alignment and tire balance and they ignored me.

Gar

 

Just because if fixed your truck, doesnt mean it will fix everyone elses

 

He's right, didn't do anything for my truck.

 

your tires may already be "cupped" or out of round from being out of balance.They will wear in a pattern and have flatspots or high spots...when all else fails have the tires shaved and then balanced..ALWAYS works.Nothing like perfectly round tires!!!!

 

I had a resonating (pulsating) vibration at 85 MPH. I put new wheels and tires on my truck, and now that vibration is gone. Must have been the tires.

 

realize it won't fix everyone, but it can fix some...as it fixed mine

Gar

 

Truck is at the dealer as I write....they are road force balancing tommorow and replacing the tires in the front.

 

Where can you go and get tires shaved? I'm going to try this as the 20's are darned near impossible to balance.

 

How do they "road force" balance?

 

www.gsp9700.com

See above web site, most every one that is doing road force balancing is using Hunter equipment we have one in our shop, road force balance can help in some cases, in all cases it will help you weed out tires that are causing a ride disturbance some can simply be turned on the wheel to get the road force readings to a reasonable level the Hunter machine will tell you if the rim or tire is beyond spec. P series tires are allowed up tp 24 pounds road force and LT series up to 44 pounds road force, if a road force reading is above spec usually the tire is the cause ,all air pressure must be set before road forcing tires as air pressure out of spec can affect road force readings.

 

not sure where you are ,but look for a big truck tire shop,they usually can do it or look up tire equipement dealers, call them and ask if they know who "shaves "or" trues" tires.

 

Ahh, I see. Great information! I have a Kelly truck tire center here I'll call and they probably do that as well as correct balancing on larger tires.

 

What kind of prices are you guys paying for this? I was told around $80 and it wasn't covered under warranty.

 

Balancing and alignment are covered without cost for 1 year under warranty. $20 per wheel sounds correct.


So far I have two new tires up front and there replacing the rear tires Monday....will see if this works as I have my doubts

 

I paid $62 for all fours without a rotation at the dealership. Would have cost $80 with rotation.

Still seeing a much smoother ride since I road-forced balanced. I have also found that just dropping the psi in front to 34lbs and putting the rear at 34-34.5 helps the ride considerably--I think part of the problem is running these tires at max psi.

Good luck.