The BMW UUC Digest Volume 3 : Issue 138 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: <OT> Suburban Tow Beast Help Re: <OT> Suburban Tow Beast Help Re: <OT> Suburban Tow Beast Help Re: <OT> Suburban Tow Beast Help Re: <OT> Suburban Tow Beast Help
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 14:12:47 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <OT> Suburban Tow Beast Help Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul, If you felt it through the seat, I would suspect a binding drive shaft. If in the steering wheel a tire that is experiencing tread separation. -Kevin ---------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail communication is confidential and is intended only for the individual(s) or entity named above and others who have been specifically authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, use or disclose the contents of this communication to others. Please notify the sender that you have received this e-mail in error by replying to the e-mail. Please then delete the e-mail and any copies of it. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 07:55:37 -0400 From: "Gary Derian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: <OT> Suburban Tow Beast Help Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A driveshaft vibration has a higher frequency than a tire/wheel vibration and is more of a buzz than a shake. Gary Derian > > Paul, > If you felt it through the seat, I would suspect a binding drive shaft. > If in the steering wheel a tire that is experiencing tread separation. > > -Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 10:22:01 -0400 From: KMS- Brett Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: uuc Digest <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <OT> Suburban Tow Beast Help Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gary Derian wrote: > A driveshaft vibration has a higher frequency than a tire/wheel > vibration and is more of a buzz than a shake. > Gary Derian > Oh no it's not..... In a BMW maybe. My Chevy Blazer just about vibrated my fillings out when the rear universal on the rear drive shaft finally seized. Now, it was a buzz for a long time prior to that, I'll give you that much Gary.... ;-) Brett Anderson KMS ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 20:40:12 -0400 From: "Jason Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <OT> Suburban Tow Beast Help Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If it was tread separation, it wouldn't go away. BTDT. -Jason '86 951 "Sparky" '70 240Z "Dusty" '97 Contour "Bambi" '03 325xi "Daisy" > Paul, > If you felt it through the seat, I would suspect a binding drive shaft. If in > the steering wheel a tire that is experiencing tread separation. > > -Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 11:32:53 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Paul Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <OT> Suburban Tow Beast Help Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For what it's worth, my ancient, carpet-for-floorboards, 1975 Blazer had similar symptoms and it was a bad steering box...junkyard replacement item of course. Hey I was just outta college! It also had manual steering...and a very large wheel ;-) John Grills BMWCCA-NCC 98 M3/4 91 318is project (anyone interested? 99k, will be in good shape soon...) 88 M3 87 iC -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Paul Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > Sorry for the off topic post, but I need some help with my 1996 > K2500 4x4 Suburban and I consider this to be the largest bodies of > automotive intelligence I know of. > Truck has just shy of 130k miles. Whilst driving it down the > highway to work Monday to move some stuff, it developed a shake. It > started slowly and built up in instensity over 20 seconds or so. The > shake got so bad that the coffee in my cup was shooting out of the > little opening in the lid like a geyser. Way worse than a blowout. I > applied the brakes to pull over and the shake got worse still. I stopped > and got out to have a look expecting to find parts spread about or a > square wheel or something. Nothing appeared to be amiss. No leaks, > nothing loose, all the tires and hubs seemed warm, but not hot, pretty > typical. > I got back in the truck and started off slowly down the shoulder > to turn around and try to get back home. The shake was gone. > Completely. I turned around and headed for home. About 2 miles later, > the shake came back for 30 seconds or so and went away on its own. > Smooth sailing the rest of the way home. > I inspected the truck more thoroughly when I got back in town > last night and cannot find anything wrong. I did some general checking > and then spent some time looking at the front right wheel bearing since > I had noticed some roughness and noise while "bearing" to the left on > the highway (I crack myself up). There is no play in the bearing or > strange noises when turning it by hand. Could a bearing create an > intermittent shake? And then appear OK? These are cartridge bearings/hub > assembly (not unlike a BMW rear hub since there is a drive axle through > them for the 4x4). The bearings are $250 each and not a trivial > replacement, so I'm not real interested in doing this for fun. > Any other ideas? The tires are 2 years old and seem fine. My > plan for tonight is to put the truck in 4WD, put it on jack stands and > run it in place to look for noise or shakes. Kinda scary, but I'm not > sure what else to do. I'd take it to a pro, but if the shake won't come > back on command, I'll be wasting his time and mine. Thanks for any > ideas. > > Regards, > Paul Craven > 1993 325ic > 1999 528iT > 1996 Suburban with square wheels (OBMWC - has towed the 325 home from a > failure or two and lets it sleep through bad weather) > > Search the ARCHIVES:http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > In memory of Michel Potheau - friend, enthusiast, founder of the BMW CCA. > > UUC Motorwerks - BMW Performance Fine-tuning and home of the Ultimate > Short Shifter - accept no substitutes! > 908-874-9092 . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(5 messages) **********
