Truck cabin vibration at 30mph, stops after

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  1. SFLTRKBIZ

    SFLTRKBIZ Light Load Member

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    Hello everyone, the truck is a 2005 volvo 670. It has a slight cabin vibration at 30 mpg, not felt in the steering wheel though. After 30 mph it smooths out. I would think its a tire balance issue or alignment. What do you guys think?
     
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  3. jameslawton

    jameslawton Light Load Member

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    Yeah sounds like tire or drive line vibration
     
  4. tk40176

    tk40176 Light Load Member

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    Have your U-Joints checked.
     
  5. 4vmach1

    4vmach1 Light Load Member

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    U-joints or maybe the drives haft is out of phase if you had to remover the drive shaft for any recent work.
     
  6. Heavyd

    Heavyd Road Train Member

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    Ok, alignments never cause or fix vibrations. Never have an alignment done to try to repair a vibration, you are just wasting your money. Volvo likes to use maintenance free, or grease-less u-joints and slip joints. These will dry up after a while and start to seize. The only way to check is to disassemble and try to move by hand.
     
  7. Dasologa

    Dasologa Bobtail Member

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    i would lean toward U-joint too, or wheel balance, are you running wheel balancer ? or did you had the tyre balanced when mounted on rim ? if not i would check on that, or maybe snow accumulation inside the rims, seen that a few times, rims is packed full of snow and ice, and it makes the wheels go off-balance ......
     
  8. Lucas379

    Lucas379 Bobtail Member

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    I have to agree with 4vmach1
     
  9. Davidlee

    Davidlee Medium Load Member

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    A drive line problem will usually change with acceleration.
     
  10. rank

    rank Road Train Member

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    Bad injectors.

    :smt064
     
  11. Dasologa

    Dasologa Bobtail Member

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    i would tend to agree for bad injectors....
     
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