Ok so I had a severe death wobble happen to my truck about 3 years ago due to a bad ball joint (so I was told by mechanic who did some repairs afterwards). At that time a ball joint was replaced, a track bar bolt broke and was replaced, and brake line replaced. Some months later I noticed axle oil was leaking onto inner front right tire also.
I had a mechanic replace both axle seals and the leak was actually worse when I got my truck back and I noticed a shimmy/shake to front end particularly on highway starting at about 60 mph. I took the my truck to another different mechanic (for reasons I won't get into here) and told them about the issue/history of this truck. They ended up replacing the front right u-joint, intermediate , and outer axle. This stopped the axle oil leak and that shimmy/shake.
I have since noticed somewhat of what I would cal a bounce to the front end. I've had the truck to 4 different mechanics to try and diagnose what this could possibly be. The bounce is sporadic and not consistent and does not seem to by brought on by hitting a bump/ pot hole, etc. One mechanic says front axle could be bent (not too sure this would cause a bounce). Another mechanic says a tiny bit of play in the right lower control arm ( I doubt this too would cause a bounce) , another mechanic says both lower ball joints are bad (I doubt this too as one was already replaced and there is no play in the tires when you pry on them.
This truck has new Bilstein shocks, moog end links, new poly bushings on sway bar and end links, a new steering stabilizer shock (rancho), a steering stabilizer bar, a 3rd gen track bar (truck is a 98 2500 12 valve). Every mechanic agrees the front end parts are tight with the exception of 2 who say lower control arm and ball joints.
Truck also has BFGoodrich tires which have been on the truck for 3-4 years with no issues and rotated multiple times. Truck has no lift kit, etc.
Another mechanic also suggested changing over the front coil springs and all control arms due to truck having almost 278,000 miles on it.
So has anyone got any opinion what this bounce could be from based on the above information listed?...this is baffling me, sounds like a might have to just start replacing parts and do a process of elimination ...could it be the one axle that was not replaced is bad and causing this bonce?
I had a mechanic replace both axle seals and the leak was actually worse when I got my truck back and I noticed a shimmy/shake to front end particularly on highway starting at about 60 mph. I took the my truck to another different mechanic (for reasons I won't get into here) and told them about the issue/history of this truck. They ended up replacing the front right u-joint, intermediate , and outer axle. This stopped the axle oil leak and that shimmy/shake.
I have since noticed somewhat of what I would cal a bounce to the front end. I've had the truck to 4 different mechanics to try and diagnose what this could possibly be. The bounce is sporadic and not consistent and does not seem to by brought on by hitting a bump/ pot hole, etc. One mechanic says front axle could be bent (not too sure this would cause a bounce). Another mechanic says a tiny bit of play in the right lower control arm ( I doubt this too would cause a bounce) , another mechanic says both lower ball joints are bad (I doubt this too as one was already replaced and there is no play in the tires when you pry on them.
This truck has new Bilstein shocks, moog end links, new poly bushings on sway bar and end links, a new steering stabilizer shock (rancho), a steering stabilizer bar, a 3rd gen track bar (truck is a 98 2500 12 valve). Every mechanic agrees the front end parts are tight with the exception of 2 who say lower control arm and ball joints.
Truck also has BFGoodrich tires which have been on the truck for 3-4 years with no issues and rotated multiple times. Truck has no lift kit, etc.
Another mechanic also suggested changing over the front coil springs and all control arms due to truck having almost 278,000 miles on it.
So has anyone got any opinion what this bounce could be from based on the above information listed?...this is baffling me, sounds like a might have to just start replacing parts and do a process of elimination ...could it be the one axle that was not replaced is bad and causing this bonce?