PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Only while the truck is in motion and at speeds above 35 MPH or so.

It feels like something is knocking against the inside of the footrest. If I don’t have my foot on the footrest, I don’t feel it but I can still hear it quite well. It sounds like a clicking or tapping sound on plastic and it is driving me bonkers!

 

As far as I know the wheels have been untouched since the manufacture date of 9/2009.

I replaced the factory 15” wheels and Dunlop tires with 16” wheels and BFGs in October 2013, at about 31,000 miles. After destroying two BFGs within a week of each other on the same pothole, I went through two sets of tires at a rapid rate (Toyos and Michelins). Meanwhile, the factory 15-inchers sat in two different garages (and the storage space under the back deck) for more than five years.

I decided to go back to stock in March 2019 and put Cooper Discoverer AT/3s on the factory wheels.

 

your inner fender lining might be loose and the wind from driving at speed may be causing it to flap against the truck

 

I looked into that. Doesn’t seem to be any looser than usual. This has not been an ongoing thing. It started like a few days ago!

 

This is not the worst thing that’s happened to my truck...

In May or June 2017, the A/C started leaking. In September 2017, the leak was finally traced to the evaporator core. Almost $1,600 to fix!

 

Is that a hub centric rim? Pull the center cap and make sure it's centered. Correct tapered lugs? Can't tell. You could have a stuck caliper piston. I had one that acted exactly like that. Is the brake getting hot? Check it with an IR gun. Should be no more than 150F after a normal drive.

 

It might be worth sticking your head under the truck just to check. You would see a dirty / rusty spot on the edge of the rim where a wheel weight would have been - if one actually feel off. Or you could just take it in and have them balance the tires

 

Check or have checked the front sway bar end link(s). That can cause this.

 

The front left caliper actually did get stuck before and melted the brake pad to nothing. This was in March 2018.

 

The centers of both front rims are almost too hot to touch, due to heat from brakes.

 

Check lugnut torque, swaybar links, lower/upper balljoints

Matt

 

This actually makes more sense than the brakes...

 

My friend, who is also a mechanic, has his own shop. I bring my truck to him for damn near everything now. He works out of a large 1-car garage (2 if one vehicle is on the lift) and is able to keep costs low due to low rent and having no employees.

I’m bringing my truck in at 8:30am tomorrow.

 

I would also like to point out that my truck did not do this when the front brakes were almost completely shot.

The reason this happened is because my truck passed inspection in October 2017 and the front brakes were at 50%. In February-March 2018, it started making these awful noises and I brought it in. Imagine my shock when the dealer told me my front brakes were pretty much gone. The winter of 2017-2018 was particularly brutal and I’m pretty sure that this had something to do with the caliper seizing.

 

Some heat buildup is normal. You probably need a front brake job if the hubs (the centers of the wheels) are too hot to touch.

 

Not the hubs, the wheels...

The hubs are not really hot at all. The brakes only have about 14K on them. How could I need a brake job?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1WliDF5JtY

 

@Frontier Man
Did you actually watch it?!?!

 

I knew you were blindly liking my posts...

And you have a truck!

 

What year is your new truck?