Had all 4 tires rebalanced, had a terrible vibration around 50mph and knew it had to be tires. All tires were off by at least 4 ounces, one was off by over a pound, Vibration is gone and she has never drove smoother since the lift, dang sticky magnets dont stay on forever I guess.

Bad thing is tired shop busted 3 studs so im gonna use my 10off coupon and go to advanced and get all new studs for the entire truck, start vacation in 8 days and plan on doing studs on day 1 or 2. Also they cant get me any more of the lug nuts I have so I gotta get all new lug nuts so I dont have mix-match.

 

Why didn't tire shop replace the studs since they broke three of them? You sure the guy working the air gun isn't new to this?

 

I washed off my engine, rotated my tires and cleaned out the interior of my truck today. Its all shiny and ready to be hooked to the boat to head to the lake tomorrow!

 

Bought some H3 bulbs for my fogs.
Will be doing some more fluid exchanges Tuesday-Wednesday.

By the way, I exchanged the power steering fluid last week. It smelled like **** and killed some weeds under my truck when it sprayed out when I bumped the starter to pump it. Should PS fluid smell really bad...? Looked like it had some rusty stuff in it too.

 

Old contaminated fluid will smell terrible. If you found particles in it you might want to consider flushing it again just to get all the crap out so it doesn't plug a line up or worse.

 

Allright. Thanks. Adding that to my list for this week.

 

Shouldn't smell bad, and most all of it should be almost clear in color.

 

The fluid I drained out looked like really old ATF.
The fluid I put in was a neon blue/green.
I'm going to get some more and reflush it anyway. The pump and box work fine and it's worth $2 to help keep it that way.

 

^ What brand of Ps fluid did you get? Have you had this truck since it was new? The reason I ask is because I know a lot of people when they swap the PS fluid, will go to ATF.

 

That is why I said flush it again. The PO probably did just that and put atf in instead of ps fluid. Granted the conditioners in atf will help clean it out but the older it gets the worse it smells. Not to mention it is not ps fluid and will foam up big time under hard steering conditions.