Steering wheel shake

Sounds like my Bridgestone dueller h/l's..... truck sits overnight, next day shakes like I have no weights on it, then eventually rounds out after about 25-30 miles..

 

We had some steering wheel shake on our used 2013, it had 2/3 worn monster Wranglers on it.

I got two Michelin ‘Defenders’ for the front, 95% of the shake is gone.

 

https://m.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=42

I found this article, think this is what I’m experiencing...like I mentioned, my truck sits for 14 days at a time so...

 

Another thing that just came to mind is that I park in a slightly sloped driveway and recently started backing into the driveway. My thinking is that the forward weight of the vehicle is now increased towards the front tires (gravity/weight) and I noticed that the shimmy is more noticeable. I’m going to try pulling in forward and see if the shake decreases. Just my analogy.

 

Thanks man, this was my issue! I moved my truck about a foot and loaded up my mountain biking gear, waited about 15 minutes for my friends to show up and took off. Did not experience the “shake” at all. So for my situation it was just as you suggested. Hope this helps others as well.

 

Glad to here that. It’s just small things sometimes.

 

Update after 30k on the michilens the tires are great but the shimmy or steering shake came back at 15k . My personal opinion is that the rims are the issue. I wish i could trade for oem limited rims

 

The wheels should be rebalanced after that mileage, sooner actually. Moving wheels from front to back could aid in determining a bad rim/tire.

 

You should be rotating and balancing the tires every 5k to 7500 miles. I actually have mine done every 5k and it makes a huge difference in handling and treadwear.

Tundra's seem to be pretty finicky about tire balance in general and even more so with anything larger than stock tire sizes.

 

Here is what happened to me with my 2008 Tundra a few years ago. Installed new tires and the tire shop didn't tighten the lug nuts with a torque wrench (on mine it is 98 ft lbs). They just hammered them down with their large impact wrench. The tires acted like they were out of balance. I had another tire shop balance them and no change. I then loosened all of the lug nuts and torqued properly. 90% of the shake was gone. Those Toyota aluminum rims do not like to be overtightened. I then took the truck to the dealer and had them load balance all 4 tires- the shake was gone. The truck now has 90K miles and I have encountered a new problem. At 60 mph on up on a smooth road no problem. If I hit a large bump on the road I get a very slight momentary death wobble that immediately goes away. Haven't been able to solve this one yet.