reggie
May 6th, 2004, 12:26 PM
I'll start at the beginning.
My transmission failed on my 1996 GMC Suburban. Grinding noise and no reverse was kinda a dead giveaway. When I pulled over, I shut the truck off and got out. I heard a hiss.(becomes relevent). Anyway, I had a tire going flat. The valve stem had cracked. So here i am with a failed tranny while I relace the tire.
Maybe the one good thing in this story is I had 16 days left on my extended warranty ans it covered the repair on my transmission.
Now....I pick up my fixed truck from the tranny shop and i drive directly to the tire place to have my flat fixed. They did fix my flat and also balanced all my tires and did a front end alignment. All good? I dunno! Since then I have a nasty vibration most noticable at higher speeds on the highway..65 and above. I have been back to the tire place 4 times. They rebalanced 4 tires and also rotated. This made no difference in the vibration. Next I went back to the tranny shop where they checked "the obvious" and indicated all was fine. Now I'm getting frustrated. A fifth time bcak to the tire shop and I replaced the 2 front tires..michelin atx 10 ply at 170.00 ea. The 2 tires were only a bit prematurely replaced but i need to resolve this problem. This still made no difference in the vibration. Upon returning yet again to the tire shop, I had the managers meeting of the day with them and they also went for a ride with me. They aggred something was definitely wrong and pulled my truck back into the shop. They balanced the tires yet again and check all front end components to be sure. With still no change they indicated they have done everything they could and the problem does not lie with the tires, rims or front end. As I write this my truck is back at the tranny shop with the info that I recieved from the tire place. Their intent is to send out the driveshaft for balancing. Perfectly understandable. However, I have this sickening feeling that the driveshaft is not the problem. I guess my question is...Is it possible for something inside the transmission to be causing this problem. i.e. torque converter unbalanced?...a bearing they did not replace? I just dont know. What the heck wil my next step be to find this cause if the tranny shop sais it is nothing they did?
The kicker here is I never drove the truck enough after the tranny was rebuilt and before the tires were balanced to know if the vibration was from the tranny shop. Although I feel very confident now that it is not in the tires, rims or front end. Am I going to get the shaft? egadz!
My transmission failed on my 1996 GMC Suburban. Grinding noise and no reverse was kinda a dead giveaway. When I pulled over, I shut the truck off and got out. I heard a hiss.(becomes relevent). Anyway, I had a tire going flat. The valve stem had cracked. So here i am with a failed tranny while I relace the tire.
Maybe the one good thing in this story is I had 16 days left on my extended warranty ans it covered the repair on my transmission.
Now....I pick up my fixed truck from the tranny shop and i drive directly to the tire place to have my flat fixed. They did fix my flat and also balanced all my tires and did a front end alignment. All good? I dunno! Since then I have a nasty vibration most noticable at higher speeds on the highway..65 and above. I have been back to the tire place 4 times. They rebalanced 4 tires and also rotated. This made no difference in the vibration. Next I went back to the tranny shop where they checked "the obvious" and indicated all was fine. Now I'm getting frustrated. A fifth time bcak to the tire shop and I replaced the 2 front tires..michelin atx 10 ply at 170.00 ea. The 2 tires were only a bit prematurely replaced but i need to resolve this problem. This still made no difference in the vibration. Upon returning yet again to the tire shop, I had the managers meeting of the day with them and they also went for a ride with me. They aggred something was definitely wrong and pulled my truck back into the shop. They balanced the tires yet again and check all front end components to be sure. With still no change they indicated they have done everything they could and the problem does not lie with the tires, rims or front end. As I write this my truck is back at the tranny shop with the info that I recieved from the tire place. Their intent is to send out the driveshaft for balancing. Perfectly understandable. However, I have this sickening feeling that the driveshaft is not the problem. I guess my question is...Is it possible for something inside the transmission to be causing this problem. i.e. torque converter unbalanced?...a bearing they did not replace? I just dont know. What the heck wil my next step be to find this cause if the tranny shop sais it is nothing they did?
The kicker here is I never drove the truck enough after the tranny was rebuilt and before the tires were balanced to know if the vibration was from the tranny shop. Although I feel very confident now that it is not in the tires, rims or front end. Am I going to get the shaft? egadz!