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  • Birthday 06/01/1961

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    Bart Butler
  • Location
    Irvington, AL
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    Male
  • Drives
    2017 Silverado 1500 LTZ 2WD

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  1. Bart’s Silverado
    You indeed got lucky! Good luck with the new truck. Let us know if it shakes!!!
  2. Bart’s Silverado
    Your welcome. They are top notch and so are their shafts. Mine is a 2wd and for me the shaft took out all the shake except for the normal tire balance issues. I’ve determined that the 20 inch Goodyear RSAs are just cheap tires. Similar construction to their 17 inch cousins for police cars. I ran them for years on my cruisers. The state paid a whopping $43 per tire!!! Cost does equal quality in a tire. My truck is currently running 17 inch wheels from my old Tahoe and Wal Marts cheapest Goodyear tire in 265-70/17. Rides very smooth and the tires seem to last very well.
  3. Bart’s Silverado
    Call Performance Drivelines in Barstow CA and order their two piece steel driveshaft kit. It will fix your truck. Also much, much cheaper than trading or legal action.
  4. Bart’s Silverado
    You have a bad set of tires unless their machine has a problem. As them when was the balance machine last serviced and if it has a history of becoming out of spec over time. If the machine is not the fault, call BFG customer care and lodge a complaint for new tires. Bad ones are made every day and it only takes one to make your truck shake like a buckboard.
  5. Bart’s Silverado
    Yanking our that mile long, fat ass aluminum drive shaft and replacing it with a heavy duty steel two piece shaft with center support and carrier bearing cured my truck of ALL vibrations. It now has gone 20,000 vibration free miles and I expect many many more. With the original shaft it destroyed its transmission at 356 miles on the odometer and had to be towed to the dealership. I understand your frustration but with the right diagnosis the trucks can be made to function. Still we should not have to do any of this to a brand new $41,000 truck!! I did because I could not afford to trade that brand new truck back in and the whole situation pissed me off enough that I wanted to show those high paid GM engineers that it could be fixed if you said screw the corporate limitations placed on them. I’m sure they already knew that, but wanted to stay employed!!
  6. Bart’s Silverado
    I took a set of 17 inch Z71 wheels from a 2005 Tahoe I used to own and went to Wal Mart and bought the cheapest Goodyear tire I could. I put them on in place of my 20 inch chromed stock wheels and RSAs on my 2017 LTZ. The ride was much smoother, I got better mpg, and they seem to last forever. 17,500 miles and no visible wear. Not sure who makes the wheels now for GM, but to me they are suspect. Ill put the 20s back on when I'm ready to get rid of the truck.
  7. Bart’s Silverado
    It's still ongoing.
  8. Bart’s Silverado
    Performance Drivelines out of CA made my two piece driveshaft kit for my 2017 1500 crew cab LTZ 2wd. Over 15k of silk smooth operation so far. Cost is under a grand delivered. Can be installed with a drill and normal hand tools in about 90 minutes. All steel construction and are way stronger that stock shaft.
  9. Bart’s Silverado
    I been preaching this about the driveshaft for over 10 months! Glad some owners now realize I was not blowing smoke.
  10. Bart’s Silverado
    Call them!
  11. Bart’s Silverado
    GM will only replace it with another aluminum shaft. They did that for me and determined that the replacement shaft was only half as out of round as my original one. However that amount was within GM specs so no replacement of the Second shaft. Mind you they had already done tires, torque converter, etc with no success. I had less than 1000 miles on it. I could not afford to trade (8000 bucks for a 2018) so I set about determining what part could be causing different vibrations at varying speeds. The driveshaft! So I contacted Performance Drivelines in Barstow CA and they made me a custom two piece steel driveshaft with a custom center support and bearing. They made it to 3/4 ton specs for my 1500. It cost me $800 shipped to my door. Took me about 90 minutes to install in my driveway laying on my back! One test drive and I had a smooth as silk truck. It now has 15,000 miles more and still no vibrations. GM knows they have driveshaft problems but to recall would cost billions. They are content paying dealer to perform their slight of hand to appease customers and buy back a few here and there. I lost my warranty on the driveshaft thru GM but at least I now have a truck I can enjoy for many more thousands of miles. I took it in for an oil change the other day and every tech came over to look at my solution. I noticed that my truck traveled 30 miles during that oil change! They drove it just to verify I was right!!!
  12. Bart’s Silverado
    Cheaply sourced aluminum driveshafts made in Mexico. I replaced mine with a steel one and wa-la, no more vibration. My truck has been vibration free for 15,000 miles! GM knows but with millions of units sold it would break GM to fix them.
  13. Bart’s Silverado
    It's the drive shaft. See my other posts.
  14. Bart’s Silverado
    I've got $20 That says it is the driveshaft!!! See my other posts.
  15. Bart’s Silverado
    I've said this several times. It is the style of driveshaft Chevy and GMC use on these trucks that is causing the Chevy Shake. The large diameter, long, thin walled, aluminum driveshaft are inherent wobble queens. This is why each truck has a speed limiter at different speeds. Once the shaft starts vibrating they back off a couple mph/kph and set the limit. If you can't drive the truck fast enough to reach driveshaft critical speed, you won't trash the tranny like I did. Now for the other shakes at other speeds, they too are driveshaft related. I changed my driveshaft over to a two piece steel shaft and center carrier. It is on a 2017 LTZ 2WD Crew Cab. It is also made to 3/4 ton specs. Since installing it 12,000 miles ago I have had a smooth as silk truck that will cruise all day long at triple digits if you so choose. My cost was about $900 but that sure beat trading for another brand truck. All the road force balancing in the world will not fix these trucks. Only a new style driveshaft will do it! Mark my words.
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