Death Wobble, bummer...
Six weeks out of warranty and my '09 Jk developed the "death wobble". Dropped it off at the local dealer, with a little luck they can find the problem without spending big bucks.
Have u changed out you're lower control arm and track bar bolts to the proper size yet? As this is the major cause of death wobble. The dealer will most likely be useless at fixing this .it's 12 bolts and steering stabilizer along with perfect alignment and perfectly balanced tires would mask this problem temporarily but not fix it
Last edited by Mark73; Apr 10, 2012 at 05:23 AM.
After having a front-end alignment done, all suspension retorqued, stering stabilizer & front shocks replaced on my stock jeep. the golden ticket was unbalanced tires. Good Luck and hope this helps
Just received a call from the dealer working on my Jeep and the steering stabilizer was bad, this was my first thought seeing it looked like it was leaking oil. They are rotating/balancing the tires also. I already replaced the bolts on the track bar, did not know about any other bolts being the wrong size. They also torqued all the bolts on the front end.
Was a little upset at the cost, but was able to talk them down some seeing I'm only a month out of warranty. Need to learn to do some of the work on my Jeep myself, they charge way to much. The biggest cost was changing out the fluid on the transmission/transfer case and differentials, will check into doing this myself next time.
Was a little upset at the cost, but was able to talk them down some seeing I'm only a month out of warranty. Need to learn to do some of the work on my Jeep myself, they charge way to much. The biggest cost was changing out the fluid on the transmission/transfer case and differentials, will check into doing this myself next time.
Yes the lower Control arm bolts r to small and full thread metric. The replacement bolts are 9/16 shoulder bolts . If u did track bars u need 8 more if u need the specks I have it somewhere but it's in the form someplace . Thats a good place to start working on u own rig it's easy and necessary. Good luck stay dirty! :-)


