Intermittent steering wheel shake

I've been having some intermittent steering wheel shake while driving around 60mph or greater. I've also noticed at speeds around 70 or so i hear a pop sound that sounds like someone tapped the bottomside of the drivers floorboard with the end of a ratchet. Any speed lower than 60 and no shake or noise. I'm wondering if a lower balljoint would cause these symptoms?

 

It could. Jack it up and check out your front end

 

I had shake as well and it turned out to be one of my front tires blew a bead and caused a bubble to form in the tread, had to get it replaced

 

I recently experienced a mild steering wheel shake at freeway speeds.

Getting the tires re-balanced and rotated solved that. No charge for that, at America's Tire where I bought the tires.

 

I jacked up on the lower control arm on both sides and checked for play in the wheel up/down and side to side. No play on either. Nothing looks obviously wrong. Put the wheel back on and drove it down the road and still doing the same thing. next i may try rotating the tires and see what happens. I cant imagine its a tire out of balance due to the shake not happening all the time.

 

Stock size tire? Any wheel spacers? Stock wheels? Does it seem to go away in a freeway speed turn?

 

This POP noise constant when shaking or makes the noise, then starts shaking? How many miles on front end components? Ball joints been replaced?

 

Stock rims and tire size. No lift or spacers. It does seem like it goes away in a turn. The pop noise isnt very consistent. It only seems to happen when im at 70 or above and i rarely get on a highway to get that fast. Shaking happens before the noise cause it starts around 55-60. I'm fairly certain no suspension parts have been replaced from the look of them. None look new. I've got right at 130,000 mile on the truck.

 

You need to jack up by lower control arm and use a pry bar or 3ft 2x4 under tire and lift it up. That will check for lower ball joint play. A pair of channel locks and squeeze tierod end togeather for looseness. Same on upper ball joint.

 

Mine is doing the same thing in the corners. Balancing tires didn't help. My wheel bearings feel tight. I've eliminated or replaced everything but wheel bearings. I'm going to replace them next. 260k miles couldn't hurt.
I put my chassis ears on the knuckles and drove at 70mph and listened for bearing noise. The right seemed aa touch louder then the left. But no unusual noises.