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a lot of vibrations! Engine mounts?


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hello everyone back at you guys today with another question. so my truck is running good but at idle the whole truck shakes pretty good like the steering wheel vibrates and generally the whole truck.

and when i shift into another gear it jolts also when im on the throttle the truck vibrates alot and when i get off the throttle it stops. so im thinking engine mounts but let me know i just want to get other opinions on this
 


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Idle shaking is usually the engine idling rough, possible skip? Possible air leak past MAF?

Could be engine mounts/trans mount but also U-Joints can cause this shake/bang while moving.
 

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Bad engine mounts won’t cause vibrations - they’ll just let you feel the existing vibrations more. Vibrations like you’re describing could be a few things but as I said in the other thread I’d check real time obd2 data for misfires. If no misfires are detected, that would narrow things down a lot.

Back at the beginning of your original thread, you mentioned misfires on 3 cylinders - then you found one bad valve spring and fixed that. That wouldn’t have fixed all the misfires though so I’m just trying to fill in the gaps in the data.
 

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