Topic: death wobble

[DTB]

we need to fix your tie rod! 

oh yea...that'll cause death wobble too 

[ontherocks]

yeah, his tie rod hit the oil pan and bent it, he said it gets dw some times. gotta fix that this week.

[Goose]

^ affirmative...   

[4-lo [OP]]

im gonna try all that this weekend and see if it helps... good ideas thanks...

[Doable]

Did any of the fixes help ? I'm having a little trouble with death wobble also.

[Fearofrunner]

Try tightening your shackels first before anything this is a common problem that causes the wobble of death.

[offroadin88]

I have had the death wobble bug before.
start with tighting up the shackles
then make sure your ubolts are all tight
then have a friend get in and wiggle the wheel back and forth slowly look at your tie rod ends if there is any lateral movement on a rod end replace it.
it will mainly be one of those  places mine was a bad rod end so I ordered 4 new ones and did um all and it took the wobble away.

[ontherocks]

so, tightining my shackels worked, but i went to the highlakes and got it back, not as bad but i got it. im gonna try torqin every thing and see. any after wheelin dw suggestions?

[46&2]

so, tightining my shackels worked, but i went to the highlakes and got it back, not as bad but i got it. im gonna try torqin every thing and see. any after wheelin dw suggestions?

Did u ever get it properly aligned??

[OOPS]

thats a good idea

Not mine, I learned it from Roger Brown.

http://www.4crawler.com/index.shtml

There is a lot of good info on his site. To me it is a must read.

[ontherocks]

i should have it aligned, i did it but that was a home job. i think the shackels just keep comin loose, gonna double nut em.

[46&2]

i should have it aligned, i did it but that was a home job. i think the shackels just keep comin loose, gonna double nut em.

Well I went over everything time and time again and in the end, my tow was off. had my buddy (who runs a 4x4 shop) double check my alignment and he corrected my tow and i havnt had death wobble since

[ontherocks]

how much it run $ wise to have a shop do it?

[46&2]

how much it run $ wise to have a shop do it?

i dont know what an offroad shop would be asking, my friend owns a shop so he just did it for me no charge but I think when I took it to Goodyear before that (who did a poor job, cant really blame them since my truck is slightly different than stock) it was like 60 bucks. i would try and have it done at 4x4 shop that is familiar with lifted toyotas. my friend has been building toyotas for a long time so he knows how to align it properly. i doubt they would charge that much though, just dont rely on a regular repair shop to get it right.

[4xJedi]

Really the best way to set the toe is the picture on page one.  You can do it yourself and put that saved money towards loctite  .  Keep checking all your front end hardware.  My knuckle studs top and bottom kept coming loose which also adds to DW, but shackles are definatly the main cause.  They let the entire front end shimmy left to right.

[ontherocks]

when i rebuilt my axel i set the pre-load right on the knuckels, but i have heard people say thats a problem. but i dit two other axels the same as mine and they dont dw.