Paul Downes
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- Westphalia, Michigan
My old dodge truck has been driving me nuts lately. Started out with a small vibration in the front end. Actually it felt like the drive shaft so I did an inspection and couldn't find anything wrong with that so I moved to the front end and found the track bar ball joint shot and another ball joint sloppy. replaced both of those and still had the vibration. yesterday the carrier{center} bearing blew out on the drive shaft so today that got replaced. While I was under the truck I had to jack up the rear end to align the u-joint and some water in the bed found a hole and came pouring down on me. Great, now the truck is peeing on me. Still have the vibration. So tomorrow I will put the truck up on jacks, remove the wheels and run it to see if the drive shaft is out of balance. The vibration had been getting steadily worse until the center bearing blew out. Now it's back to just sort of bad. I may have lost a counter balance weight on the shaft banging around in the woods so it's back to sleuthing and trying not to put a bullet in the contraption.
Something about running old vehicles and not wanting nor affording to get something newer.
Something about running old vehicles and not wanting nor affording to get something newer.