I'm experiencing the front end shimmy I've read about on here, but tried a search on both forums, no results. Anyone on here help resurrect the topic? Seems to happen by hitting a bump while going faster than 35 or so.

Jim,

I sent you an email with the link to the Ford Wobble thread on Tony's forum, which we still have archived.

Hopefully you can get access, as it still accepts our old User ID & passwords.

Well, I've had the truck since new, and it has 46K on it. We just put almost 10K on it this summer, rally, Texas, and home and never noticed it once. Since we've been home, driving it without towing, it's happened 3 times. The front tires look uneven in their wear pattern, so will probably try to replace them and get the front end aligned. 46K on factory tires is probably about normal, but the four rears still look like they've got many more miles left on them.

Jim
If I remember correctly new front tires, shocks and steering stabilizers help. There was still something about linkage in the steering system that needed replacing

Go to the Thor forum & read about all the things those with class As & Cs on the Ford chassis do to make them handle & ride a little bit better.

Go to the Thor forum & read about all the things those with class As & Cs on the Ford E350/E450 chassis do to make them handle & ride a little bit better.

If it helps, I'll give you my experience with what's commonly called the Ford "death wobble", it's well documented on Ford forums, and the wobble also occurs on trucks with solid front axles like Rams.

I went through this with our 2011 F-450, it mainly happened unloaded and got quite violent sometimes. Some garages suggested replacing the steering damper but I went to a guy who had seen and fixed this problem. He put the truck on a hoist and had a person remain in the truck while he went under and looked while the steering wheel was turned. He suspected that the ball joint at the end of the track bar was worn and moving a bit, confirmed it and replaced it.

Ford had plenty of replacements in stock (a sure sign that this is a problem!).

The repair has completely eliminated the wobble, I may replace the damper as I have 100,000 miles on the truck but replacing it without getting to the real problem won't solve it for you.

As an add to the above, I found that a relatively easy way to judge the service folks on this issue was to tell the tech or service reception person that I had the "infamous Ford Death Wobble". If you try this you will get two possible responses, a "deer in the headlights" look in response, or a smile and a comment that the tech has seen the problem. That's how I got my Ford fixed, and not from Ford service!

My suspicion is that replacing your two front tires will eliminate the problem, but the things that Almcc is suggesting is good to get checked. All vehicles with a straight front axle are susceptible to the death wobble and a good stabilizer, ball joints and balanced tires help prevent it. Going too long can wear all those parts out.

By the way I just replaced my front original BF Goodrich on my '16 F350 with another pair. I'm not a BFG fan but was happy to get 45,000 out of them and will probably get 75-80k out of the rear.

Had the problem from day. 4 sets of tires on the front 45,000 miles, 20011, F350, dually, 6.7 engine. Lariat, in the shop every 8 to 10k. Got it fixed at the RAM dealer they jacked it up and replaced it with a 2017 RAM.
Yes ford is aware of the problem and IF more turn to the NTSH and complain Ford might get the problem fixed. The 2017's and 18's have got the 450 front end .
Check back 2 months and my problem is listed there.

Up date::: nhtsa.gov has 65 complaints on death wobble for 2011 ford F350 cc my tracking # for this problem is 11013478 location Huntsville, Al.
Can find no information on if/is they are looking into this issue. Maybe to much money flowing the wrong way.