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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 01:17 PM
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I have a 2003 dodge ram 1500 4x4 5.7 4dr auto. Recently when driving I notice that between 80kmh and 110kmh the steering wheel shakes and vibrates, and can be felt anywhere in the truck. If you go fast in to that speed range nothing happens but with slow accelerating you can feel it, it almost feels like when you have a manual car that is in to high of a car and it struggles to accelerate. Hope that explains my problem clearly thank you in advance for your time and help
 
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 01:40 PM
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could be a number of problems such as:
tire balance
driveshaft balance
u-joints
balljoints
tierods
alignment
 
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 02:42 PM
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My guess would be the front tires are out of balance or broken radial. 9 out of 10 times a vibration between a certain speed are from tires. If you have the Goodyears, get rid of them and buy some real tires. Just about any other brand is better than those damn things. Good luck
 
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Old Mar 25, 2010 | 03:07 PM
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An easy way to rule out the tires is rotate them and see if the vibration goes away. That assumes that all of your tires aren't out of balance.
 
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Old Mar 26, 2010 | 02:47 AM
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I am having the same exact problem with my 98 dodge 1500. If you get on it it's not there but when you do it slow it vibrates bad.
 
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Old Mar 26, 2010 | 03:05 AM
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today while in the speed at which it vibrates i put the truck into neutral and the vibrating stoped?????
 
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Old Mar 26, 2010 | 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by kc2002
today while in the speed at which it vibrates i put the truck into neutral and the vibrating stoped?????
I had exactly same problem with bad u-joints.
 
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Old Mar 26, 2010 | 06:04 AM
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If in Neutral the vibration stopped than it's u joints. Probably the rear closest to your diff.
 
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Old Mar 27, 2010 | 11:06 AM
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I just put on new wheels and tires and new u joints and the problem is still there.
 
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Old Mar 28, 2010 | 03:09 PM
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just replaced both u joints one of them was in bad shape and it has fixed my problem thanks for everyones help
 
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