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Old Nov 4, 2009 | 09:32 AM
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Help. My '01 Ram wants to hunt while driving down the road, the bumpier the pavement the worse. I checked the ball joints and they were shot so I replaced them. It has solved about 80% of the problem. The truck has 285 width tires on 20" rims on the front and I was wondering if this could be contributing to the problem.

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Old Nov 4, 2009 | 09:54 AM
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I'll take a guess , since we have to guess whether or not you have 4wd, and say check the trac-bar.

Welcome to DF btw.
 
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Old Nov 4, 2009 | 09:56 AM
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what do the tie rods look like?
 
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Old Nov 4, 2009 | 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by zman17
I'll take a guess , since we have to guess whether or not you have 4wd, and say check the trac-bar.

Welcome to DF btw.
Sorry, it's a 2WD.

Thanks for the welcome.
 
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what do the tie rods look like?
I'll be checking them today.
 
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Old Nov 4, 2009 | 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by AlabamaRam95
what do the tie rods look like?
You don't know what tie rods look like?
 
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Old Nov 4, 2009 | 10:38 AM
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Have someone turn the steering wheel right to left(without the truck running) while you inspect "everything" steering related from the bottom of the steering column under the brake booster out to the tie rods.
 
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