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My 88 K5 before and after lift pics. I have questions.

Ditto, my 10 bolt did it several years back, was a bad balljoint. Sucks when the shakin starts too.
 
The tires I bought had been on a truck that had been sitting for a while, 1 tire had gone flat and that is the one I had to have demounted and remounted b/c of a slow leak where one of the creases was.

The truck rode great at 1-80 mph before the lift. The 33's will go on this weekend if I get some time.
 
shady said:
being a 10 bolt its probably not DW. I havent heard of it in the 10 bolt ever. Its probably the bias ply tires your feeling. they get out of round easy and can take awhile to smooth them selves out. I'd try the other tires first.
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My 1988 V10 Suburban had random death wobble with the factory 10 bolt. I replaced it with a Dana 44 when I did my 3/4 ton swap and haven't had it since.

Martin
 
I cant say that i havent heard of it now:laugh: but I still think its the tires. there the only component thats different that could cause such a change.
 
Ya don't think going from a mild tire like the BFG AT, to a serious aggressive tread pattern on those swampers isn't going to cause some vibration as well??

I'd be willing to bet he getting more vibration from those tires than the pinion angle honestly. As far as the shaking back and forth, if it's in the steering wheel/front end, like I think you are describing, check the ball joints again, install the stabilizer and try it again. The slightest little bump on one tire will set this action into motion.

Commenting on the tires, because I know when I went from an all terrain to a mud terrain tire, there was significant vibration increase just from those two different tread patterns.
 
Installed the stab this morning. Made sure all tire PSI matched at 36 (had to let 10psi out of driver rear). Drove around doing some errands and its actually better than it was. I wasn't scared like yesterday lol.

Went to the tire store to get them balanced and they said drive around on them for a week or 2 before I get them balanced, especially if I haven't driven on them much. In my heart I think its the tires. I can drive about 5mph and I can feel one tire (or possibly more) bumping. My steering wheel doesn't jerk around or anything, just bumping up and down like something is out of round. I believe the side to side shimmy I'm feeling is the lugs pushing back and forth. I think the alignment idea is a good one and just for obvious reasons I'll need to check pinion angles when I get the correct tools for that.

I only drive this around town and never get over 30mph on any of the roads but I will still be chasing the correction :thumb:

Thanks again for any help you guys throw out. I'm all ears! or eyes i guess...
 
after hearing that it's a front shimmy gig, i agree with the others defin itely sounds like a bias tire thing going on.... alignment, run em, get em round, etc...
 
I'd still get a new stabilizer for the front also, can't hurt anything thats for sure.
 
Bent wheel maybe or flat spots on the tire? How is the rubber and do you have any cracking anywhere? I'd at least put the old tires back on and see how it drives. At least you could determine if it was the tires now rather than waiting a few weeks for a balance......
 
Got the rear shocks installed. No more random bouncing! Driving much better now but still pretty rough and I am still attributing that to the tires. Going to swap with my 33's Monday or Tuesday and see how she rides. :thumb:
 
Put the old 33's back on and it rode like a dream. Sure does look a lot better with the 35x15's on there, though! IDK if I want to bounce around with the 35's or just sell them and buy some 35" radials for my stock wheels. :confused:
 
Unless your doing HARD core wheeling the radials will be fine all the time. Get a set of goodyear kevlars and have the best of both worlds. glad to here it was the tires. Bias plys suck
 
i had the same problem with my 35s and now having the problem with the 38s im running if you have them running backwards from what they were ran they will give you the death wobble you have to look at the tires and figure out what way they are cupped and on my 35 15 15 tsl i ran between 10 and 15psi in the summer a little bouncy in the morning but after they warmed up they were smooth... just do a nice burn out with the rear tires then switch them to the front
 
Sounds to me like the bias ply tsls it should ease up when they're warm I always had driveline vobriations 50-60 mph when if ease off the throttle and let it coast. Simple soloution put ur old wheels and tires on and see if it cures it
 
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