New ball joints...now humming noise???
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New ball joints...now humming noise???
2007 4WD, 52,500 miles...
Front end was creaking like nobody's business, turned out to be the ball joints, had the shop put in the greasable moog ones (UCA's and lower BJs). Creaking is now gone.
I pick it up and drive off, now I have a low-pitched humming noise and very slight vibration (I can feel it in the pedals, floorboard). It's there at all speeds, and seems to vary with speed, but is noticeably the worst at around 30mph and 60mph, and when decelerating. The only way I can describe the noise is that it is faint, and the pitch is similar to that of a small single-engine cessna flying overhead. I take it back and they tell me it sounds like the beginning of a wheel bearing going bad, but there's no play in it and that it isn't an immediate concern. Sound does not seem to change if I am turning or going straight. Also, steering feels a bit tighter than it did before, but the vehicle tracks straight.
Does this seem odd to anyone else? It wasn't doing it before I got the new ball joints installed, and now it is? They did an alignment by taking measurements by hand, they do not have a machine that will fit my truck's tire size (only running 33's), and said to keep an eye on tire wear and if I notice it uneven, to take it to a shop that can fit my truck. They also told me that the play in the old ball joints was mostly up/down, and shouldn't have effected the camber to make the tires wear badly. I am thinking about taking it to Kost to get an alignment done on their machines.
Front end was creaking like nobody's business, turned out to be the ball joints, had the shop put in the greasable moog ones (UCA's and lower BJs). Creaking is now gone.
I pick it up and drive off, now I have a low-pitched humming noise and very slight vibration (I can feel it in the pedals, floorboard). It's there at all speeds, and seems to vary with speed, but is noticeably the worst at around 30mph and 60mph, and when decelerating. The only way I can describe the noise is that it is faint, and the pitch is similar to that of a small single-engine cessna flying overhead. I take it back and they tell me it sounds like the beginning of a wheel bearing going bad, but there's no play in it and that it isn't an immediate concern. Sound does not seem to change if I am turning or going straight. Also, steering feels a bit tighter than it did before, but the vehicle tracks straight.
Does this seem odd to anyone else? It wasn't doing it before I got the new ball joints installed, and now it is? They did an alignment by taking measurements by hand, they do not have a machine that will fit my truck's tire size (only running 33's), and said to keep an eye on tire wear and if I notice it uneven, to take it to a shop that can fit my truck. They also told me that the play in the old ball joints was mostly up/down, and shouldn't have effected the camber to make the tires wear badly. I am thinking about taking it to Kost to get an alignment done on their machines.
Last edited by Turd Fergy; 02-16-2012 at 07:56 AM.
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