Shake or Vibration Issues

[BC87]

Hi everyone, from northwest Canada here. My wife and I just got a 2017 Sierra 1500 for our landscaping business. We had a rough patch in life and both had bad credit so we had to put down $15,000 for any dealer to even finance us. We are very excited to be able to have a new truck for our business and chose to have a bit more reliability and go new.

 

Second day I noticed some weird shifting going up our steep hill and rumbling at low speeds. Then yesterday going 80km it felt like I was hitting a rumble strip for 5-10 seconds and my ears plugged, was very noticeable. I looked it up and found this, I don't know anything about vehicles. I figured 38,000 would buy us reliability for a year or two, there is no lemon law up here, if it gets worse and I want to take it in I can't afford to not have a truck for even 2 days. It honestly doesn't bother me alot but we will see if this keeps up.

[Gofas]

Regarding your instrument cluster rattle, not sure if this helps but I had one too. The noise was coming from just below my steering wheel. Mentioned it at a service appointment and they replaced the knee bolster panel. 5 minutes down the road, the rattle came back. When I got home, I removed the panel (four clips, just pull it back gently to find them), I found four screws behind the knee bolster panel that needed to be tightened down. Good luck.

great I'll check it. Had to cancel my appointment, needed my truck.

[Gears and Gadgets]

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[BC87]

Good video. Are others having the vibration at all speeds? I don't get on the highway a lot but drive around through low limit roads a lot for work and seems like the truck is always struggling, vibrating, bad shifting. The worse part is my ears are constantly plugging and makes me a bit car sick, something I have never felt while being behind the wheel until now.

Edited July 25, 2017 by BC87

[Severado]

Good video. Are others having the vibration at all speeds? I don't get on the highway a lot but drive around through low limit roads a lot for work and seems like the truck is always struggling, vibrating, bad shifting. The worse part is my ears are constantly plugging and makes me a bit car sick, something I have never felt while being behind the wheel until now.

Yes. I hate it and it hates me.

[Snoringbear]

Good video. Are others having the vibration at all speeds? I don't get on the highway a lot but drive around through low limit roads a lot for work and seems like the truck is always struggling, vibrating, bad shifting. The worse part is my ears are constantly plugging and makes me a bit car sick, something I have never felt while being behind the wheel until now.

" I don't get on the highway a lot but drive around through low limit roads". Do you have your drivers side window down a lot while driving on those low limit roads? Just curious.

[BC87]

" I don't get on the highway a lot but drive around through low limit roads". Do you have your drivers side window down a lot while driving on those low limit roads? Just curious.

Yea maybe about half the time.

We both smoke and said we wouldn't smoke in the truck but we're in it a couple hours a day so that lasted about a day.

Edited July 25, 2017 by BC87

[Snoringbear]

Yea maybe about half the time.

You may already be aware of this; modern vehicles are designed to optimize aerodynamics with windows up. So, when a window is open it often causes strong buffeting and wind harmonics as it flows through the vehicle. I experience this in my truck and virtually all my previous vehicles going back several years. I like to ride with my window down too when the weather is nice and not in a hurry. I minimize the buffeting by cracking the rear passenger side window a few inches, helps quite a bit. Anyway, probably not relevant, just saying

[BC87]

You may already be aware of this; modern vehicles are designed to optimize aerodynamics with windows up. So, when a window is open it often causes strong buffeting and wind harmonics as it flows through the vehicle. I experience this in my truck and virtually all my previous vehicles going back several years. I like to ride with my window down too when the weather is nice and not in a hurry. I minimize the buffeting by cracking the rear passenger side window a few inches, helps quite a bit. Anyway, probably not relevant, just saying

Actually that does sound like it might be relevant to me. I have noticed it feels like a lot of resistance on highway with windows down too. I'll take note of it as I drive around today. I haven't owned newer than 2001 so I'm not used to new designs.

[rhino68]

So after watching more youtube videos and researching and talking to a few people I went ahead and ordered some new yukon axles to replace mine. It just makes too much sense to me right now that it is the axle flange being out of round. To the member that stated the dealer replaced his, well they probably used the same oem part number that everyone has and hasn't noticed the out of roundness. Also a big factor in this is the tires. They are developing an out of roundness on the tread. That little extra weight puts more weight down when the tire comes into contact with the pavement. Thats what I believe anyways. So even if you replace the axles and still feel something I'd recommend balancing your tires immediately. This goes to show when a dealership road force balances your tires they are technically correcting the problem. the axle itself isn't causing this vibration, I believe the axle is forcing the tires to become unbalanced.

 

Yesterday I took the rear wheels, calipers, and rotors off to check my axle flange. Of course they are out of round like everyone else's. I think some axle flanges are worse than others. When I re-installed my wheels I made sure to install them 180 degrees from the position I took them off. During my 90 mile each way commute to the job site today I noticed the vibration is almost not even there. On the way home it gradually came back. Still not as bad as yesterday but it is there. I made this video of my axle flange so you can all see as well. Same as previous members videos.

 

 

 

I will report back once the installation is complete and I get a good amount of miles on her.

 

I'm seriously aggravated over it and it really sucks that we can't just enjoy our drive. Constantly turning the radio down thinking maybe its this or that. I hope the end is near for all of us.

[abominable z71]

So after watching more youtube videos and researching and talking to a few people I went ahead and ordered some new yukon axles to replace mine. It just makes too much sense to me right now that it is the axle flange being out of round. To the member that stated the dealer replaced his, well they probably used the same oem part number that everyone has and hasn't noticed the out of roundness. Also a big factor in this is the tires. They are developing an out of roundness on the tread. That little extra weight puts more weight down when the tire comes into contact with the pavement. Thats what I believe anyways. So even if you replace the axles and still feel something I'd recommend balancing your tires immediately. This goes to show when a dealership road force balances your tires they are technically correcting the problem. the axle itself isn't causing this vibration, I believe the axle is forcing the tires to become unbalanced.

 

Yesterday I took the rear wheels, calipers, and rotors off to check my axle flange. Of course they are out of round like everyone else's. I think some axle flanges are worse than others. When I re-installed my wheels I made sure to install them 180 degrees from the position I took them off. During my 90 mile each way commute to the job site today I noticed the vibration is almost not even there. On the way home it gradually came back. Still not as bad as yesterday but it is there. I made this video of my axle flange so you can all see as well. Same as previous members videos.

 

 

 

I will report back once the installation is complete and I get a good amount of miles on her.

 

I'm seriously aggravated over it and it really sucks that we can't just enjoy our drive. Constantly turning the radio down thinking maybe its this or that. I hope the end is near for all of us.

Just watched your video, That drivers side is really bad. I wouldn't be surprised if the Yukons improve things significantly. I have been tempted to swap my axles out for Yukons as my final attempt/investment before getting rid of the truck and switching manufactures for good, the 2018 F-150 with the updated 5.0 and 10 speed tranny is looking pretty good right now, I'll wait and see what your results are after the axles have been swapped for a few thousand miles.

[rhino68]

Just watched your video, That drivers side is really bad. I wouldn't be surprised if the Yukons improve things significantly. I have been tempted to swap my axles out for Yukons as my final attempt/investment before getting rid of the truck and switching manufactures for good, the 2018 F-150 with the updated 5.0 and 10 speed tranny is looking pretty good right now, I'll wait and see what your results are after the axles have been swapped for a few thousand miles.

 

5.0 with a 10 speed sounds nice. I am a huge fan of GM. I have owned 02 with 4.8, 05 with 6.0, 06 duramax and not one issue ever. Got rid of the duramax with 248k miles with the original alignment in spec and changed the brakes at 200k. Got a 13 ram 2500 cummins and could have lemoned that piece but traded it in for my current 16 1500. I absolutely love this truck minus this issue. It is by far the most comfortable cab silverado has ever had. My next option would be the very simple Tundra. I debated it when I purchased this truck but as stated I am a GM guy.

[rhino68]

And another update seems to be yukon axles are out of stock everywhere. Found some on amazon that the store said was in stock and just received an email stating otherwise.

[Orlando8]

I have said it before, why not turn them down to be true on a lathe????

[rhino68]

I have said it before, why not turn them down to be true on a lathe????

 

 

It could be done however mine are not true on the bolt mount surface as well as the center black area of the hub seems to be off.