Vibration (or better yet, lack of vibration)

[DPKetchum]

The DRONE is at 1900 rpm to about 2300 and starts to level off. Will do in neutral also. Worse under a load. Its exhaust/rpm harmonics.

 

[Summit]

my 04 has a metal dampner on the PS line. pretty sure this is the cure for the steering vib. my 03 didnt, it had the vib... bad.



someone mentioned TSB,, this is probably it.

 

[Briman]

Johnstra - I agree with SLinse - My drive line vibration (#3) occurs when I'm driving the truck between 70 and 75 MPH. I can coast at these speeds and it does it. I can shut the diesel off at the same speed and it does it. If I take out the front drive shaft it goes away. As fas as I understand it, the power steering pump thing happens at standstill or rolling and gets worse the higher the RPM. I can't say that I have much of the power steering problem on the '03. Or maybe I don't notice it because of the drive line problem. If your drive line had the vibration and you spent any time on the interstate at speed you would know it.

 

[fencebuilders]

No vibe as of yet,but i noticed i have front end noise when i move my steering wheel left to right rapidly,at idle and stopped of course Sounds like tie rod ends to me. Im heading for the dealer next week. You fellas with the vibe might want to check it,who knows?

 

[FGeter]

This is probably not the same vibration as the ones being described but I was getting a bad vibration when i got off the accelerator and was idling at a light. I corrected the problem by placing a piece of rubber hose between the automatic dip stick tube and a heater line on my 03. It was driving me crazy since I thought it was in the dash. The vibration is no longer there. It would have eventually rubbed a hole in my heater line.



03 short bed 4x4 2500 slt with goose neck hookup and towing package