Hello everyone. Last night, I changed my front brakes and rotors (probably about the 7th or 8th time in my life that I have changed them, so I'm not a complete rookie).

I have a 2000 Ford Explorer sport. Everything seemed fine, except last night, when I took it for a spin around the block, I noticed that whenever I turned, I felt a pretty good vibration/shaking on the front of my truck.

I took the wheels off again, made sure everything seemed tight, put them back on, and went for another ride. Same thing happened.

This morning, on the way to work, whenever I hit a slight bump in the thruway (and I mean slight), my truck started shaking violently. As soon as I slowed it down to about 25-30 mph, the vibration went away. I was able to get the truck back up to 55 mph and the truck didn't shake again...........until I hit another bump.

Whats going on?
Please help!

 

I'd take a good hard look at what you did when changing the brakes...try to retrace every little step. It might be coincidence, however,since it really sounds like a suspension or steering problem. Have someone quickly turn the steering wheel back and forth and look for loose link ends, and also jack the truck and check the ball joints for looseness.

 

Make sure when you put the caliper back on you did not roll your brake hose. Sounds like you may have a restriction due to pinching hose.

 

It ended up being air that got into the power steering system that was the problem. While changing the brakes, I turned the steering wheel without completely starting the truck. I thought that might explain the vibrations when turning, but was surprised that it would that cause the vibrations when hitting a bump on the thruway.
But after turning the steering wheel from left to right about 40 times with the truck running, the problem disappeared.
Thanks for the help.