# My pickup bounces side wards **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** ranger, ford\ **Created:** [January 29, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181 "2017-01-29T04:49:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181/21 "2017-02-04T15:06:47Z")
> [@Barkydog](#): > > Would bad sway bar links be a possibility? I think that is a possibility. I can recall that a friend of mine had this exact rear-end side-hop problem with his Explorer, and the cause turned out to be a broken anti-sway bar link. ---
**Author:** ![mrgrudz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@mrgrudz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mrgrudz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181/22 "2017-02-04T19:18:30Z")
The ballast helps the ride. I’m just hoping it doesn’t need any thing more than shocks. I bought the truck from a friend last spring for $1500 drove it from Oregon to Montana, and then poop hit the wind machine. I have put $2000 and lots of hours into it so far. The thing is only worth the $1500. I replaced the bearings and all brake components all around and looked at the suspension while the wheel were off. Didn’t see anything. Maybe I didn’t want to see any thing. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mrgrudz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@mrgrudz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mrgrudz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181/23 "2017-02-04T19:23:20Z")
NO NO NO! I don’t want to have to replace everything under there. Tired of working on this thing. I’ll just take it to a priest, have him bless it and then sell it as soon as possible. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181/24 "2017-02-04T19:50:38Z")
> [@mrgrudz](#): > > I don’t want to have to replace everything under there An anti-sway bar link is actually a pretty small component. So, I don’t foresee that you would be replacing “everything under there”, and the cost (if I am correct about it being a broken link) shouldn’t be very high. ---
**Author:** ![NYBo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/nybo/32/17281_2.png) [@NYBo](https://community.cartalk.com/u/NYBo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181/25 "2017-02-08T04:55:41Z")
Does this truck have a rear anti-sway bar? ---
**Author:** ![George\_San\_Jose1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@George\_San\_Jose1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/George_San_Jose1)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2017, 1:15am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181/26 "2017-02-09T01:15:45Z")
One thing that’s easy enough to do, get out your tape measure and with the truck parked on a level surface, check if both sides are riding at the same height. I think it is normal for there to be some difference front vs rear, but if the ride height is different right vs left, that would provide a clue where to focus to determine what’s wrong. Just a guess, but as mentioned by others above, it sounds some kind a rear leaf-spring or shock absorber problem to me. ---
**Author:** ![mrgrudz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@mrgrudz](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mrgrudz)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181/27 "2017-02-17T16:35:18Z")
Well the shocks came and I put them on that night. That was the problem. Now I feel a lot safer. Thank you everyone for the input. Michael ---
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181/28 "2017-02-18T02:27:59Z")
Thanks for posting your solution. @andriy.fomenko seems to be the big winner here. With that big check he’s getting we can look forward to him taking us all out to dinner this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![thegreendrag0n](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/thegreendrag0n/32/9265_2.png) [@thegreendrag0n](https://community.cartalk.com/u/thegreendrag0n)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181/29 "2017-02-18T03:05:09Z")
so my poke into the dark room resulted in loud MEOW!!! 🙂 few weeks before I removed struts/shocks from my “new” 2006 Pathfinder with 150K miles and they were so rusted that I could barely move the rod on one of the back ones, thus the guess congrats on getting it fixed to @mrgrudz! [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-pickup-bounces-side-wards/99181.md?page=1)