What causes a truck to shake when braking?

If you feel the shaking or vibration in your steering wheel and your brake pedal, it could be your rotors. The rotors get pressed by the brake pad to help slow your vehicle down, and if the rotors are out of balance, this could be causing the vibrating tremors that you feel in the pedal and steering wheel.

Why does my Chevy Silverado shake when I brake?

The Silverado will come to a stop noise free. If the brake pads are worn past their useful life, or if they are dirty, they will no longer be able to make the quality contact with your steering wheel. At this point, you’ll feel your steering wheel shake as the brakes are pressed down.

What should I do if my steering wheel shake when I brake?

It’s generally recommended if you replace the rotors, you replace the brakes, and grease the guide pins. Or if you’re just replacing the brakes, you also grease the guide pins. Now, if your brakes are still good, you could just grease the guide pins. Most of this can be done with a basic set of tools.

What causes vibration when you apply the brakes?

I will let you know results. The vibration comes in at 35 mph and gets worse as speed increases. At 60mph the vibration starts by just touching the brakes, at almost no pressure and as you step on the brake harder the vibration increases.

What causes uneven wear on your brake shoes?

We also turned the rotors on the front to start with and put on new calipers, no change then we just put on new rotors. The rotors show even pressure and runout good. Uneven wear on brake shoes is mostly caused by improper adjustment and spring hardware unless one of the components is bent or OOR.

The Silverado will come to a stop noise free. If the brake pads are worn past their useful life, or if they are dirty, they will no longer be able to make the quality contact with your steering wheel. At this point, you’ll feel your steering wheel shake as the brakes are pressed down.

It’s generally recommended if you replace the rotors, you replace the brakes, and grease the guide pins. Or if you’re just replacing the brakes, you also grease the guide pins. Now, if your brakes are still good, you could just grease the guide pins. Most of this can be done with a basic set of tools.

I will let you know results. The vibration comes in at 35 mph and gets worse as speed increases. At 60mph the vibration starts by just touching the brakes, at almost no pressure and as you step on the brake harder the vibration increases.

We also turned the rotors on the front to start with and put on new calipers, no change then we just put on new rotors. The rotors show even pressure and runout good. Uneven wear on brake shoes is mostly caused by improper adjustment and spring hardware unless one of the components is bent or OOR.