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I just had a rather frightening experience with my XJ, and I am not certain what caused it. I was driving in the city at about 35mph, and while driving over some crappy parts of the pavement something happened where it felt like the whole front axle just started violently vibrating up and down for about 5 seconds and then went away. I thought something had broken loose, like a spring or a shock or something...
I pulled over and looked through the front suspension to see if anything was obviously broken or out of place, but it looked fine. It continued driving just fine.
Trying to rationalize it, I think that I hit a sequence of bumps that somehow amplified the spring action of the coils and the wheel itself bounced like a basketball across the pavement. Perhaps my shocks need replacing?
Anybody else have such an experience? Maybe it was the whole 'death wobble' thing, cus it scared the crap out of me and I thought I was going to wreck it....
thanks. I was asking because I wanted to use a 99 intake but keep the renix TB. I knew the tps was different. wonder if I can make an adapter plate for it to work.
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I just had a rather frightening experience with my XJ, and I am not certain what caused it. I was driving in the city at about 35mph, and while driving over some crappy parts of the pavement something happened where it felt like the whole front axle just started violently vibrating up and down for about 5 seconds and then went away. I thought something had broken loose, like a spring or a shock or something...
I pulled over and looked through the front suspension to see if anything was obviously broken or out of place, but it looked fine. It continued driving just fine.
Trying to rationalize it, I think that I hit a sequence of bumps that somehow amplified the spring action of the coils and the wheel itself bounced like a basketball across the pavement. Perhaps my shocks need replacing?
Anybody else have such an experience? Maybe it was the whole 'death wobble' thing, cus it scared the crap out of me and I thought I was going to wreck it....
All the tie-rods are less than 6 months old, as is the track bar. I know that I need to replace the balljoints, and perhaps that is what happened.
I sure don't want to experience that again....
Haven't used Fix-A-Flat in a front tire have you?
Can you imagine that wobble in a 5 ton, six wheel drive military wrecker crane at 40 MPH and it doesn't quit til you stop? Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt.
Can you imagine that wobble in a 5 ton, six wheel drive military wrecker crane at 40 MPH and it doesn't quit til you stop? Been there. Done that. Got the T-shirt.
I didn't put any in the tires, and I didn't feel any swishing around in there when I had the wheels off. There could be some in there though. The tires are toast and I need new ones. :/
That happening in a 5 ton truck would have been a nightmare!
I did drive a 27' U-haul with all my crap in it, and my Neon on a trailer behind it, from Phx to Portland Oregon and it felt like I had death wobble for the whole 1200 miles. That was the worst ever.....
09-21-2015, 03:49 PM
Go ahead! Cut me off in traffic! 
