Question about ride after lifting....

[Black Goblin]

Ok on thursday I lifted my truck a lil over 7 in front and 4.5 in back. I am now getting a shimmy in the front end at low speeds and turning around corners. I was wondering if this was something that is normal or maybe I need to try and check to see if I can tighten the bolts some more. by the way once I get some longer shocks and steelbraided brake line for the back then I will be lifting the back another 2 inches or so to help level it out somemore. Thanks for any response in advance.

 

[BLOODBANE]

I've got to ask the obvious here.
1. Did you use a dropped Pitman arm with the lift, and
2. Did you get it aligned after lifting it?..................

 

[Lt.Jim]

Did your front end get mis aligned durring the lift? Also with the difference between front and back I might wait till it's leveled out to make any decisions.

 

[Black Goblin]

I've got to ask the obvious here.
1. Did you use a dropped Pitman arm with the lift, and
2. Did you get it aligned after lifting it?..................

to answer Qnum.1 the answer is yes.
to answer Qnum.2 the answer is I did a tgapemessure job cause I ran out of time in the shop. It took me 9.5 hours just for the front. Also what can I do to get the camber a lil better cause the front tires have a bit of positive camber. I know that some lifts have to settl before they will be at the hight that they are supossed to be at.

 

[Black Goblin]

Did your front end get mis aligned durring the lift? Also with the difference between front and back I might wait till it's leveled out to make any decisions.

My front end is about 90% right. It is actually better than before I did the lift hehe . Yeah well the truck is my daily driver and I drive 20miles to and from work and I am getting a lil worse gas milage with the shimmy. I can handle it till I level it out but it might be a month or so.

I also was wondering if a stearing stabalizer would help it out a bit?

 

[JDraper]

My front end is about 90% right. It is actually better than before I did the lift hehe . Yeah well the truck is my daily driver and I drive 20miles to and from work and I am getting a lil worse gas milage with the shimmy. I can handle it till I level it out but it might be a month or so.

I also was wondering if a stearing stabalizer would help it out a bit?

Steering stabilizer would just be hiding something out of whack. My bet is on a combo of alignment and a wheel slightly out of balance. When I lifted my X, I had nasty death wobble at first, but it was my toe-in being out of whack and one wheel just slightly out of balance. Right now, I'm set at about 1/16" toe in when doing measurements across the front of the tire (33's) vs. the rear of the tire, and I have no wobble issues any more.

 

[Black Goblin]

Steering stabilizer would just be hiding something out of whack. My bet is on a combo of alignment and a wheel slightly out of balance. When I lifted my X, I had nasty death wobble at first, but it was my toe-in being out of whack and one wheel just slightly out of balance. Right now, I'm set at about 1/16" toe in when doing measurements across the front of the tire (33's) vs. the rear of the tire, and I have no wobble issues any more.

Well here is an update. I found a couple bolts that I needed to use a hammer on a wrench to tighten enough that it wouldn't move anymore and I found the adjustment for the camber, I just forgot where it was. I no longer had a woble untill My brake pad ripped off lol. I fixed everything and now don't feel any problems at the moment. I guess I will find out on the way to work. I have already had the tires balanced a week ago because I had a shimmy from that too. So hopefully I will not have anymore problems except for maybe my wheel bearing which I am going to get new ones on friday. Thanks for all thoughts on th subject and advice givin.

 

[PRS]

Sweet! you got it done! Hopefully you gettin somethin a little bigger than those 31's real soon

 

[Jason94sport]

Might be driveline vibration since the front is way higher then the rear. Could be your u-joints complaining.

 

[Black Goblin]

Might be driveline vibration since the front is way higher then the rear. Could be your u-joints complaining.

Nope I have no vibration anymore. It was mostly the masive positive camber that I turned into minor negetive camber. It was also that the adjstable cams for the I-beams and the lower bolts on the radius arms were a lil loose still. Tightened them up and had no problem till my break pads ripped off. All my u-joints are nice and tight. I adressed that problem when I baught the truck in july.