Deathwobble and Wheel Spacers Don't Mix!
09-10-2010, 02:18 PM
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Year: 1996
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Sorry man, a 3" lift simply does not change your geometry that much. I'm running a 4.5" on stock steering (for 2 more weeks) and have no death wobble. My alignment has been off since I installed the lift last winter. If things are tight, and a wheel is held at an off angle, it will stay on that off angle, not wobble back and forth between it and some other angle. If it's moving, it's worn.
09-10-2010, 08:57 PM
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Check all the bushings, just because they look great doesnt mean theyre good, put on a brand new trackbar, gave us death wobble, couldnt figure out what the bleep it was, replaced the steering stablizer, and a few other odds and sods. The tracbar bushing was super squishy causing death wobble. Replaced that, havent felt death wobble since
Stationwagon, didnt mean to sound like a douche, just misinterpreted your intention and meaning wrong. My bad
Stationwagon, didnt mean to sound like a douche, just misinterpreted your intention and meaning wrong. My bad
09-10-2010, 09:02 PM
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The spacers were aluminum, the kind that have a second set of lugs in between the normal ones. I did use loctite, and torqued them as hard as (once again) a guy with a dirt-floor garage using a bent tire iron can get them. I imagine one or two of the lugs on the jeep (three sheared in the end) were in bad shape (but not sheared yet), and I didn't notice. The other side is still as tight as possible.
09-11-2010, 03:45 PM
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No the bushings are all good. They don't have any play in them, they are all jacked from a 85 cherokee that blew its engine in 88, and sat in a barn from then until when I grabbed it about three months ago. I double checked everything, it is the alignment. I had no death wobble after I installed the bushings and joints and front driveshaft from the 85. My wheels were majorly towed out right after the lift. Only after the lift. I fixed it best I could. Then it blew up. That is how it happened.
@Donnie K: I don't know what to say, except that 11 years is a long time between the vehicles, even if they are technically the same model. In addition, you're probably running better tires (mine were from a junked 85 toyota pickup), your alignment was probably a little better to begin with, and your steering is likely tighter. My jeep was old and tired already, I got it for free.
@Donnie K: I don't know what to say, except that 11 years is a long time between the vehicles, even if they are technically the same model. In addition, you're probably running better tires (mine were from a junked 85 toyota pickup), your alignment was probably a little better to begin with, and your steering is likely tighter. My jeep was old and tired already, I got it for free.
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