Vibration at idle

[RodneyNichols]

I 've done a search and I didn't find anything about vibration at an idle so I figured I would ask you guys here on TDR.





I ONLY have vibration at an idle. It doesn't matter if I'm in drive with brake on, or park. It's at about 800 RPM's it's coming from the passenger side. If I just barely touch the throttle it goes away around 1000 rpm's. then I can here the cummins idling. It's driving me crazy. If I pull up to a drive through and not having to turn the truck off with the 3rd gen. but with the vibration so bad I have to turn the truck off just to hear them.

when I'm sitting there idling thats all I here is the vibration and not the engine.



Does anyone have this problem? any ideas on how to fix it?



thanks in advance.

Rod

 

[rbattelle]

Something is definetly loose. Check your turbo exhaust elbow clamps. Mine were on there pretty tight, but when I did some work on the elbow I found the nuts had vibrated loose after just a couple days. I installed nylon lock nuts as jam-nuts after that.



Chances are, something is loose.

 

[JHardwick]

Hey Ryan, you ever get that elbow drilled and tapped?

 

[rbattelle]

Jeff-



Emailed you.

 

[StephenThomas]

I also have a vibration at idle, but it sounds like it's different from yours. My vibration is at the steering column. Vibration is so bad that it rattles my keys -- very very irritating. I am going to have my dealer check it out at the same time they install my tow mirrors.

 

[Tony T.]

Originally posted by StephenThomas

I also have a vibration at idle, but it sounds like it's different from yours. My vibration is at the steering column. Vibration is so bad that it rattles my keys -- very very irritating. I am going to have my dealer check it out at the same time they install my tow mirrors.

Stephen: A little off the main subject post, but installing tow mirrors is a super easy task. I sure would not pay the dealership to do it, unless it's goin to be a freebie, like your truck came in without them, I done mine about a month ago, took about 45 minutes to a hour to switch out the pwr/heated standard mirrors and install the pwr/heated tow mirrors. The dealership I use charges $72. 00 bucks per hr, for labor. JMO!

 

[djbobo]

Mine has done it. Sounded like it was comming from the middle of the dash. From reading a different post the vibs were comming from the auto dip stick tube. Take a look (if u have a auto) at it while the vib it at its worse and see if that thing is vibrating like a tuning fork? Or if it's touching anything close to the firewall - there might be the problem & easy fix. A cable tie or two might do.



good luck



dj

 

[StephenThomas]

Tony....

Thanks for the info on the ease of towing mirror install. The swap will be a freebie from my dealer. One less thing for me to do.

 

[JamesDennis]

I had a vibration at idle on my 03. The ATF dipstick was rubbing against the heater hose coming from the firewall. I put a piece of foam in between the two and that fixed the problem. I took it to the dealer later and they made some adjustments. No vibrations.



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