my runner is bouncing in the front end.

what happened is me and my wife were out messin around a little bit, and i hit a mud hole that was a little deeper than anticipated. it didnt seem to awful, but when we got back on road, the front was definatilty bouncing...what could that be? i thought there was mud jammed in the wheel or something, tryed to wash it out with a hose, but still bouncing.

 

You ruined one/both of your shocks.

 

well here it is 2 am and i am wearing my stupid led headlight thing, ok anyhow, there is no dirt jammed in there, the truck seems to be sitting level, could it be the front CV joint?

 

is there a way to tell?

 

The CV joint doesn't have anything to do with the truck bouncin around, if it's the joint, it'll just make bad sounds and yeah...

Try this...with your truck standing still, bounce the front end up and down by pushing down on the hood. Once you stop, it should make maybe 1 bounce and stop relatively quickly. If it doesn't and keeps bouncing maybe 2-3 times, one or both of your shocks are dead meat.

 

ill check it out BRB.

 

It might be something as simple as you knocked all the wheel weights off the rim. Take a look and see if you see any.

 

ok so i tryed it and it seems pretty solid....so i just looked under the truck to see if i could see anything i didnt notice the first time, and i did see that the boot on the CV was missing its inner clamp! so since it was off i went ahead and pulled it back to see what it looked like and it was seperated. so it was the CV. I do want to thank you for your help tho, I thought it was a shock too, but it didnt look like it was sitting funny, like i had busted it out right. so it needs a CV!

 

I don't understand how the truck was bouncin' because of the CV lol. Maybe shaking or rattling but not bouncing. Might just be me. Glad you got it figured out.

 

well it was actually snapped inside, and the shaft was outside of the carrier. wobble wobble, shake it shake it. oh well, I figured it out, gold star next to my name for the day.