Iv seen about a jillion of these threads lately and figured it would help to post anything useful to these people in one thread since death wobble is usually caused by the same culprit on every xj, so if you have something to post up post it

ill start with a loose track bar or worn out track bar, ball joints, and bad alignment

 

sway bar bushings bad sway bar links lose swaybar where they connect to the frame, and a bad steering stabalizer wont make it any better lol. and all the things i described fixed mine. this is front sway bar.

 

ill post again, not enough caster will give you the same effect the front wheels on a shopping cart gets

loose tie rod ends, loose steering box...

 

What's Death Wobble?
A lot of people mistake DW for bad / poorly balanced tires. Granted, this can help DW get started, but check your shorts after, you'll know when you've wobbled!

 

when i hit a bump in my old xj and it shook so bad the bottom half of my dash fell on the floor and i pulled over to see if both of my front wheels were still there is when i discovered death wobble lol.

it ended up being alignment.

yes if your asking if you have had it then you have not.

 

I would like to share this interesting article about Death Wobble: http://www.kevinsoffroad.com/techart...athwobble.html

Hope this helps...

 

Ever use fix a flat? Alignment. Unbalanced Tires.

Trac Bar(bushings, angles, bolts), Axle Mounts, Tie Rods, Caster Angle, Control arm bushings, Steering box bolts/spacer, Frame(cracks in frame could make steering box feel loose), Damaged steering stabilizer, Bad ball/u joint, drive shaft not balanced, bad front hub, idler arm.

 

i still see death wobble posts daily. maybe we need more info here...

 

Bent tierod, bad tie rod ends, loose steering box, crappy steering angles.

 

Went though the Death Wobble scare earlier this summer. In my case the culprit was a new steering damper that was apparently faulty. While trying to solve the problem, I redid the ball joints, inspected tie rods, tires, etc. Once I replaced the steering damper with another new one, the problem was eliminated. The replacement steering damper looked nearly identical to the faulty one. The only difference was how they bolted into the trac bar.