Violent vibration when brakes applied, part II

From : Annonymous

Q: marsh monster wrote dagon70 wrote hello i have an 87 ram d250 5.9l v8 truck its my fixer upper project to learn more about cars. i just fixed a flat on the front passenger side. since then whenever i go over 35mph and apply the brakes to slow down/stop the car vibrates violentlyand im not using that term lightly. it feels like the whole truck is going to fall apart. any ideas or help greatly appreciate it. what i have done so far i made sure all the lug nuts are tight and secure; made sure the tire is seated right; the tire is the right size and everything. my guesses with some of these older trucks you have to install the tire at very specific way i.e. if you took the tire off with the valve stem at 6 oclock you have to put it back that way. second guess perhaps the rotors are warped and i need to re-surface them. shaant ------- ------- define....fixed a flat ok...the tire was flat i took it off the truck put green slime in it inflated it all i had was portable air compressor that attaches to the cig lighter and of course the cig lighter in the truck doesnt work. so i had to take the tire off of it and inflate it using the cig lighter in my other car. put it back on the truck. tightened lugs in star formation. but did not use torque wrench. is that detail enough define....since then i put the tire on. i drove it for about 5 miles to spread the green slime. few days later this problem started. questions did it have....any...brake vibration before the flat no. what part of the truck did you jack up on to raise the truck up this is where i think i went wrong after readying your email. i jacked the truck up from the frame area to the left of the tire. since the tire was flat the hight i lifted was enough. when the tire was inflated the hight the jack lifted wasnt enough to fit the tire back on. so i left the car up at that hight on a stand. then i put the jack under the control arm and raised it enough to where the tire fit. possibilities keeping in mind its a 1987 fixer-upper the controll arm bushings fubarred when the truck was lifted up. the ball joint came loose in the controll arm when the truck was lifted up. the tie rod ball and socket popped when the truck was worked on. you took something off.....that you didnt put back on. nothing else came off just 5 lugs and the tire. you put something on....that you didnt take off. i put back only the tire and the lugs changed the wheel to a different one...a smaller one same tire youre lieing.....and you did more than jest fix a flat. lieing is such a harsh word. i just didnt include all this detail the first time because it never dawned on me that it might be important. there are other possibilities... but...... from my experience...those are the most likely. not necessarily in that order though experience has made me start at the bottom of the list..and go up do a repost... let us know. marshmonster .

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From : christopher thompson

try a good spare without the liquid slime fix flat product in it. that liquid is known to give balance problems and infact says so on the bottle. that would be my first suggestion. -- -chris 05 ctd 99 durango marsh monster wrote dagon70 wrote hello i have an 87 ram d250 5.9l v8 truck its my fixer upper project to learn more about cars. i just fixed a flat on the front passenger side. since then whenever i go over 35mph and apply the brakes to slow down/stop the car vibrates violentlyand im not using that term lightly. it feels like the whole truck is going to fall apart. any ideas or help greatly appreciate it. what i have done so far i made sure all the lug nuts are tight and secure; made sure the tire is seated right; the tire is the right size and everything. my guesses with some of these older trucks you have to install the tire at very specific way i.e. if you took the tire off with the valve stem at 6 oclock you have to put it back that way. second guess perhaps the rotors are warped and i need to re-surface them. shaant ------- ------- define....fixed a flat ok...the tire was flat i took it off the truck put green slime in it inflated it all i had was portable air compressor that attaches to the cig lighter and of course the cig lighter in the truck doesnt work. so i had to take the tire off of it and inflate it using the cig lighter in my other car. put it back on the truck. tightened lugs in star formation. but did not use torque wrench. is that detail enough define....since then i put the tire on. i drove it for about 5 miles to spread the green slime. few days later this problem started. questions did it have....any...brake vibration before the flat no. what part of the truck did you jack up on to raise the truck up this is where i think i went wrong after readying your email. i jacked the truck up from the frame area to the left of the tire. since the tire was flat the hight i lifted was enough. when the tire was inflated the hight the jack lifted wasnt enough to fit the tire back on. so i left the car up at that hight on a stand. then i put the jack under the control arm and raised it enough to where the tire fit. possibilities keeping in mind its a 1987 fixer-upper the controll arm bushings fubarred when the truck was lifted up. the ball joint came loose in the controll arm when the truck was lifted up. the tie rod ball and socket popped when the truck was worked on. you took something off.....that you didnt put back on. nothing else came off just 5 lugs and the tire. you put something on....that you didnt take off. i put back only the tire and the lugs changed the wheel to a different one...a smaller one same tire youre lieing.....and you did more than jest fix a flat. lieing is such a harsh word. i just didnt include all this detail the first time because it never dawned on me that it might be important. there are other possibilities... but...... from my experience...those are the most likely. not necessarily in that order though experience has made me start at the bottom of the list..and go up do a repost... let us know. marshmonster .

From : roy

marsh monster wrote dagon70 wrote hello i have an 87 ram d250 5.9l v8 truck its my fixer upper project to learn more about cars. i just fixed a flat on the front passenger side. since then whenever i go over 35mph and apply the brakes to slow down/stop the car vibrates violentlyand im not using that term lightly. it feels like the whole truck is going to fall apart. any ideas or help greatly appreciate it. what i have done so far i made sure all the lug nuts are tight and secure; made sure the tire is seated right; the tire is the right size and everything. my guesses with some of these older trucks you have to install the tire at very specific way i.e. if you took the tire off with the valve stem at 6 oclock you have to put it back that way. second guess perhaps the rotors are warped and i need to re-surface them. shaant ------- ------- define....fixed a flat ok...the tire was flat i took it off the truck put green slime in it inflated it all i had was portable air compressor that attaches to the cig lighter and of course the cig lighter in the truck doesnt work. so i had to take the tire off of it and inflate it using the cig lighter in my other car. put it back on the truck. tightened lugs in star formation. but did not use torque wrench. is that detail enough there is your problem. get the slime out of the tire and rebalance. roy .

From : marsh monster

======== ======== dagon70@gmail.com wrote marsh monster wrote ------- ------- define....fixed a flat ok...the tire was flat i took it off the truck put green slime in it inflated it all i had was portable air compressor that attaches to the cig lighter and of course the cig lighter in the truck doesnt work. so i had to take the tire off of it and inflate it using the cig lighter in my other car. put it back on the truck. tightened lugs in star formation. but did not use torque wrench. is that detail enough define....since then i put the tire on. i drove it for about 5 miles to spread the green slime. few days later this problem started. questions did it have....any...brake vibration before the flat no. what part of the truck did you jack up on to raise the truck up this is where i think i went wrong after readying your email. i jacked the truck up from the frame area to the left of the tire. since the tire was flat the hight i lifted was enough. when the tire was inflated the hight the jack lifted wasnt enough to fit the tire back on. so i left the car up at that hight on a stand. then i put the jack under the control arm and raised it enough to where the tire fit. possibilities

From : Annonymous

ok...thank you folks...ill let you know what i find. .