Death Wobble Sanity Check

[taylormade73]

Toe it out 5/8” and go hit some known DW causing bumps and report back.

 

[MCtj04]

Do you have a printout of your alignment? Im curious what your number look like. Also, I wouldn't rule out the ball joints just because they're "in spec". Another thing to check if you havent already is the u-joints on your front axles. I've had that cause death wobble on my old cherokee.

 

[Carrington59]

Last update from shop is that changing steering stabilizer eliminated DW so that is last fix. I told them that steering stabilizer isn't the cause of DW and just makes it and they believe that the DW was a combination of track bar, UCAs, ball joints, and steering stabilizer. Every single one of those items is 2 years old and only 10k miles on them. At this point I might just have them do the steering stabilizer so I can drive it back and then figure out myself.

 

[MCtj04]

I had an aftermarket track bar bushings go bad in my Ram 2500 in 10k miles. Sometimes they use really cheap bushings that don't last in aftermarket components. I wouldn't rule any of it out without checking it yourself.

 

[Carrington59]

Yes not saying it isn't possible. But they have already replaced all that and still got DW until finally changing steering stabilizer and calling it fixed. Ball joints did make the trigger slightly less sensitive, but still got DW. Track bar and UCAs did pretty much nothing as far as feel/ride/sensitivity goes. Maybe it is all good now, but gonna want to take a thorough look at it myself since not all that confident. Was hoping to resolve it quicker and cheaper by taking it in but currently neither. I will make sure I provide another update if it is fixed or if I find whatever culprit is.