Well if you want to be technical, they are accumulating carbon which presents the issue, the rust doesnt pose a problem.

 

uh ok....it was a little joke.

 

PiggNFord: The problem that they are referring to is when you hop in your truck and take off first thing in the morning and when you get rolling along at a good speed on a smooth surface, the steering wheel will shake back and fourth very slightly enough so that you can feel it in your hand and arm. This can be caused by ANYTHING that is wrong with front tires/wheels/suspension/brakes......you name it. The most common ones have to do with tires as being a problem. If it shakes for the first few miles and then goes away, then yes, the tires have flatspoted a little when the truck sits for a good amount of time and they are cold. When you go these few miles, the tires heat up a bit and the flatspot goes away. It really isn't so much of a tire problem because almost any tire out there will do this to some degree when a 6,000 lb truck is sitting on top of it. It is just that these trucks are so stiff and quiet and the steering is so tight and responsive that we feel it 10x more than joe blow driving his caddy. Now I have noticed at work that those Contenentals are a LOT worse to do this than others. The other causes of this is an out of round or out of balance tire and will cause the exact same feel in the wheel, only it never goes away. For the one that asked, Road force balancing rolls your wheel/tire on a surface that is pressed against it to simulate if you were driving and tells you where the heavy spots on the wheel or tire are. You then take these readings and mark the wheel and tire and dismount it from the wheel. Then you turn the tire on the wheel to where the machine told you to put it. This basically matches that tire to that rim (indexing) and it will balance out with much less weight needed and it will be as smooth as possible when rolling. Now those other problems that lead to this I don't know much about other than what I have read........the steering rack or rack mounts being a problem and causing the shimmy in the wheel or something like that. Badly warped rotors WILL cause a slight feeling in the wheel in these trucks when cruising, not only when braking, but it gets a lot worse when braking if that is the case. I hope this clears up some of the questions!!

 

thats what he said, said he could not do anything and ford says its normal....i will call tmrw and see what i can do...its not fords problem its those pos jap tires....ill let u know what happens thanks for the help... by the way
i road force balanced the tires myself after two miles of driving and they came in a 47lb ,33,28,35......after driving to the delaer they claimed there were all around 12....have no idea where to go from here

 

Road force balancing gear is calibration dependent...it's a very good system, but the balancer has to be periodically checked and calibrated. You can get some wild *** readings from machine to machine if they aren't regularly checked and calibrated.