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Old 04-11-2018, 01:13 AM   #1
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Front end shakes over 45mph

I bought a bus....well a few busses...but the one I planned on keeping and converting has issues, at about 45 mph she starts shaking, Part of me says sell her for cheap and keep a different bus but the other part says to figure it out and get her fixed.

Im not a gear head by any means but dont mind getting a little dirty, my plan is to get the front end up on stands and start shaking the wheels looking for slop, any other ideas?


Bus is a 2004 Thomas front engine.

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Old 04-11-2018, 04:47 AM   #2
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if you don't find anything loose on the front end,.. i would take the tires off and have them balanced, checked for roundness, inspected for dirt/mud in the wheel,.. sometimes when a bus is going to be sold they swap good tires out and put problem tires on to get rid of them (as was the case with the bus I bought)
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Old 04-11-2018, 07:21 AM   #3
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Bad king-pins will give you a pretty good shimmy, esp if it changes momentarily when you hit bumps or potholes..

Jack it up on HEAVY STANDS or cribbing (busses are too heavy for most auto-parts store jack stands). enough that you can get a bar or pipe in the handholes of the wheel, then shake things around. if the whole knuckle moves up and down in reference to the mount, the king pins are usually the culprit. spinning the tires slowly and watching will show you out-of-roundness.

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Old 04-11-2018, 09:05 AM   #4
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Harbor Freight have a good set of six ton stands.

They are good enough for a 13000 lb axle, especially one that is not loaded to the max.

My steer axle currently has 6300 lbs weight on it, or about 3 ton.
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Old 04-11-2018, 09:24 AM   #5
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Thanks guys, ill try that, yes I figured out quick that I didnt have the tools to lift a bus wheel off the ground.

Quick trip to HF got me a pair of 6T stands and a 12T bottle jack with air lift, man what an arm saver that air is.
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