Front End Now "Floating"

[Boss Hoss]

Wilson--No Big Deal LOL! When replacing tires always go with as a rule of thumb a load rating equal to what will be required for your vehicle. Example of not doing this would be to run a load range d tire on a 1 ton truck. This will be fine if you NEVER haul a load that would need Load Range E tires.

My comment about tire pressure was made from numerous discussions with both our engineers and those of a couple of our main suppliers Goodyear and Michelin about this subject. Somewhere I have an email from years ago where the chief design engineer in passenger car truck tires answered my question and through my guy with Goodyear North America Aviation that as a rule a tire should not ever be run on the highway or improved roads at more than 20% less than the max cold psi on the tire (heat issue on the sidewall among other things). Yes there is caution built into that number but as a general rule I follow that on trucks. On my jeep I do not because those tires are 85 psi and I run 45 in them because of the weight and they DO Not Flex in fact they are probably still overinflated for best performance.

Use those because they are the best solution for my sidewall issue at the ranch.

 

[infinitereality]

Just got back from a 3hr seating at the alignment place. Got the tired rebalanced, while all of them needed to be balanced, while the fronts were off, the spindle nut on the passenger side was 1/2 way off! I know I torqued them down when I did the perch adjustment, but damn! I gotta keep an eye on it for sure.

Firestone, who did the alignment after the perch, just flat out did a ****** job. I asked them today how bad it was off and they said it was horrible. I could tell visually, but was a guess. Now visually, the front end looks proper!

The ride is smooth as glass now, but I have yet to test it out on the interstate. I'd be money my oil in the shocks was over heating, causing it to foam and why my front ended floated. Well worth the $135 for the balancing and alignment!!

 

[infinitereality]

Thanks for all the feedback people, very much appreciated! I think I got off easy with stuff that needed to be fixed (balancing and alignment) plus saved my ass from a VERY BAD accident!

I'll report back with the floating issue, good or bad. Fixing to go air my tires down to 50psi though, just because I don't think it'll hurt too much.

 

[wanderfalk]

glad it worked out . good thing you got proactive.

 

[infinitereality]

Just to report back, that only some what solved the problem. No doubt in my mind I solved it 100% over this weekend. When this issue first came up, shocks looked fine. I had a seeping shock so got a used 1K set from PropDr and put them on this weekend. I forgot what PITA knocking the control arms loose was.

Front end is fully stable now, there's no exaggerated rebounding of shocks and tires stay planted on the concrete, even on the worse parts of I-10. After 7 months, thought of needed new shocks crossed my mind, but looked okay so left them till one started showing signs of being bad.

Couldn't get one picture to upload to PhotoBucket so I just attached it.