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Old 04-23-2007 | 03:02 AM
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Default All squirley, whats up

I have an 01 2wd with 31x10.5 in procomp AT's. My question is this ....... Every little bump in the road I hit the front end seems to get really squirley. And sometimes the rear bounces to one side or the other. And when they both happen at the same time it's down right scarey. This same thing happend before also when I had the 215's elcheapo tires on it from the dealership. This is really bugging me lately. It used to happen with my sportage also but the rear had springs on it and when I lifted it and put the new springs on front and rear along with the newkyb shocks front and rear, it solved the problem.

I'm not convinced that this solution will easily solve the problem with my truck. 1st because of the light *** end, 2nd because it has leaf springs in the rear. Has anyone ever tried one of those shocks in the middle of the front end that goes on your steering components somewhere? Has anyone else come accross this problem and found a way to either solve it totally or atleast calm it down a bit? What did you use to do it? It seems to be once I get over 40 mph and it happens on the slightest bumps. I looked underneith the front end a little bit here and there and all seems good. It doesn't look like anything is broken, bend, damaged or missing. Any help or input would be much appriciated.
 
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Old 04-23-2007 | 09:27 AM
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i dont know if they make a steering stabilizer for a 2wd. thats what the shock you are talking about is. check your shocks, maybe they need replacing[/align]
 
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Old 04-23-2007 | 10:09 AM
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I agree Banders. More then like you havea suspension problem.
 
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Old 04-23-2007 | 05:56 PM
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More than likely yours shocks are badly worn.
 
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Old 04-23-2007 | 06:40 PM
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yea id say u have bad shocks, my dads 03 qc did that when one of his front shocks went bad, we replaced them both, but now its fine, although you have it happening to the front and the back so i would change both in your case, but thats just my .02
 




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