While The Truck was grand on our long cross country journey - we hauled a smallish trailer 2,000 miles then of course had to drive back (sans trailer) - it's developing a new annoyance.
Slow leak in one tire. Maybe a pound or two every two days. I'm in training and unable to get it fixed for a couple of weeks, was thinking of putting some green sealant slime in it for now...
The question is - how much does that mess up future work on the tire? I suspect it might be the wheel, as there are other symptoms: Could be me as it's fairly faint, but I think there's a shudder at 60mph. There's definitely a shudder on braking, and I've had two different shops tell my my braking system is fine. The shudder happens on medium pressure, and fades to a very warp-like "wave" as the truck stops.
Other ideas for the braking shudder are welcome...
As I said, the truck was awesome for the trip. The new PCM, installed days before, has been fine. Gas mileage sucked for that first week even without the trailer (16mpg), then gradually increased to about 15mpg average with the trailer - this even over mountains - and we managed to get almost 24mpg on one leg coming home (overall average with no tow was
21mpg). This was the first time we'd towed *anything* with the truck in all the 9 years I've owned it.Even did some reasonably serious 4x4'ing while on vacation, which was fun!
So anyway.. slime? wheel? braking shudder?
jmc