Broken front axle?
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Broken front axle?
Hows it goin all,
New to wheelin and to this forum. I have an 06 F150 Ashley and Smith Baja truck, Supercrew shortbed. Here goes, From a stop just giving a little throttle I can feel from the front driver side a bad "bump" vibration as driving on a rough road. This is on city streets. When I give it more throttle to merge left it gets worse, almost feels like its riding on the ***** of that tire real bad, bad enough to almost spill drink in console. Going straight is not nearly as bad. Right turns are better but that bumping is stiill there just not as obvious. I took it in for alignment yesterday and was told it does not need an alignment. I went out there with him and he showed me the front tires were in perfect alignment. I grabbed the passenger tire and spun it. it spun freely and the axle was spinning with it. driver side I spun it and the axle spun as the pass side did then it stopped like was bad bearings or broken axle or something was hitting something. I put more pressure on it to turn it, as i turned it the coil over compressed almost half an inch and decompressed and when it de compressed the tire spun freely until that point again and yep, again the coil compressed and decompressed as I turned the tire. It does not seem to be wheel bearing because there is no play when yanking on it from any axis. nor does it seem to be the axle due to there being no noise other than faint pop sound when underneath it turning the tire manually. I need to figure this out asap. Any help is much appreciated.
New to wheelin and to this forum. I have an 06 F150 Ashley and Smith Baja truck, Supercrew shortbed. Here goes, From a stop just giving a little throttle I can feel from the front driver side a bad "bump" vibration as driving on a rough road. This is on city streets. When I give it more throttle to merge left it gets worse, almost feels like its riding on the ***** of that tire real bad, bad enough to almost spill drink in console. Going straight is not nearly as bad. Right turns are better but that bumping is stiill there just not as obvious. I took it in for alignment yesterday and was told it does not need an alignment. I went out there with him and he showed me the front tires were in perfect alignment. I grabbed the passenger tire and spun it. it spun freely and the axle was spinning with it. driver side I spun it and the axle spun as the pass side did then it stopped like was bad bearings or broken axle or something was hitting something. I put more pressure on it to turn it, as i turned it the coil over compressed almost half an inch and decompressed and when it de compressed the tire spun freely until that point again and yep, again the coil compressed and decompressed as I turned the tire. It does not seem to be wheel bearing because there is no play when yanking on it from any axis. nor does it seem to be the axle due to there being no noise other than faint pop sound when underneath it turning the tire manually. I need to figure this out asap. Any help is much appreciated.
Last edited by 99mildmod; Jan 24, 2011 at 10:08 PM.
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The 4 wheel drive works just fine, engages and dis engages properly. So I dont think IWE is the culprit. Could be wrong though. vacuum system is fine. had a broken hose on passenger side but fixed that and now is all good.