Cured my shudder today
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Cured my shudder today
Finally got fed up with vibrating my teeth out at take off. Went to Lowes and bought some 1" square steel stock. cut off a nine inch piece drilled holes, and mounter her up there.... I cannot believe the difference.... my truck had the shudder when it was stock, then got worse with the 4" superlift. The truck takes off so smooth, I really can't recommend doing this enough. It will cost you around 10-12 bucks with grade 8 hardware. I'm sure this will help with making the U-joints last a litter longer to!
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Finally got fed up with vibrating my teeth out at take off. Went to Lowes and bought some 1" square steel stock. cut off a nine inch piece drilled holes, and mounter her up there.... I cannot believe the difference.... my truck had the shudder when it was stock, then got worse with the 4" superlift. The truck takes off so smooth, I really can't recommend doing this enough. It will cost you around 10-12 bucks with grade 8 hardware. I'm sure this will help with making the U-joints last a litter longer to!
You state you "mounter her up there...", where is up there and how did you mount her?
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Casey
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Sorry,
My truck is a long bed 3500, I'm refering to the center bearing of the rear driveshaft... it is bolted up with two bolts... simply drill your 1" square tube X 8 1/2 inches long up there between the fram bracket and the carrier drop bracket... really simple.
My truck is a long bed 3500, I'm refering to the center bearing of the rear driveshaft... it is bolted up with two bolts... simply drill your 1" square tube X 8 1/2 inches long up there between the fram bracket and the carrier drop bracket... really simple.
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Sounds like that is basically what he did. On my 1st gen, after the 4" lift, I also had some shudder and made my own spacer. I took a couple of tries to narrow down the proper length but it was still worht the little $$ involved to get it straight.
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Spacer
How much rear lift did you get with your 4 inch lift? I wasn't sure if it was a 4 inch lift, and 2" rear blocks? or Springs? I'm going with a 4.5 and lifting the rear 3 inchs Via blocks, and am gonna do a 1.75" spacer. Wanted to know how much rear lift you have, with a 1" carrier bearing drop.
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Yup, basically just a homemade spacer. My rear lift was only a 2" block, but I had the shudder when I was stock, and the lift made it 10X worse.... but it's like driving a new truck now.
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If I recall, DC has a TSB out for take off shudder. All they do is put in a over priced spacer.... and make a huge production out of it as well. My truck has a slight hint of a shudder under heavy acceleration, and its bone stock, so i've bounced the idea around of having it done. Sorry I can't remember the TSB#.
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Originally Posted by Burner
Anyone got the TBS on this? My 06 does it pretty bad......
Their are very few tsb,s for your truck, they can be seen here http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2006-index.htm
The tsb for the launch shudder on the 03&04 trucks is 03-003-04. dated june 15/04. sounds like they still haven't fixed the problem.
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Originally Posted by cowboy133
correct me if I'm wrong, but this is only for the long boxes. just curious.
Correct, only vehicles with the two piece driveshaft.
rob
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