Damaged Wheel

You just learned a valuable lesson. Never assume your truck has factory installed parts. If the rod height leveling valve has multiple points for the height i can almost guarantee it isnt factory.

If after getting the ride height perfect it still vibrates. Find an md alignment guy. They are not cheap but they are absolutely the best. They will go over your truck front to rear checking every component and will find the problem.

 

Instead of spending $$$ and guessing what the problem is. Take it to a MD alignment shop they are the best around... a 5 axle alignment is about $500-700?

 

I don’t think that rim damage is going to cause any type of vibration, I’m guessing it’s something different.

 

gotta go back and check the alignment of the drive shaft center bearing.

the rear carrier bearings (the ones INSIDE the rear axle) can be bad.

you said you had an all wheel alignment? if so, then hopefully this means all axles were mounted properly when they replaced the one you said they did. so THIS may be eliminated for now.

get you get a sampling of the rear end fluid from each rear end, and check for metal fragments?

if you get some, there is one good possibility, that rear end needs an overhaul. it was a used axle as you said, how do you know how good the bearings were in the replacement? you don't.

 

no, i mean the carrier bearings that ARE INSIDE the rear axle. they support...the carrier (also known as the ring gear)

it is even possible that the pinion gear has a bad bearing...

i'd go with a bad bearing, as i had an experience with my old mack, as i had mentions posts ago, and once they replaced the ring gear and carrier bearings, again, the bearings INSIDE the rear axle, all was great.