Can dw happen at any speed?

 

From what i've heard and read about yes. Generally it seems to happen on long sweeping curves where the ESP thinks your in a slide. Me and my rig are yet so have this happen in a crazy way. yes i have had my rig become unstable during a curve but that happens with top heavy vehicles.

 

Yes DW can happen at any speeds. It has nothing to do with ESP.

 

Do a YOUTUBE search on Jeep Death Wobble. Lots of videos. Happened to me for first time today doing around 60 MPH ...

 

as mentioned, any speed and as JKRockStomper pointed out, it has nothing to do with ESP or long sweeping curves. that is an unrelated problem.

from my experience with DW, low speed incidents such as driving over a pot hole or railroad track or just hitting a bump in the road with just one tire is almost always a track bar related problem - bad bushing, loose bolts, wollowed out mounting holes or failing mounts. higher speed DW as in hitting a series of uneven cracks at highway speed is typically a loose or bad suspension/steering component such as a ball joint or tie-rod end or in some cases, unbalanced tires or one bad shock. all these things can allow for greater movement which can loosen track bar bolts and instigate DW. unfortuantely, if this is your case, you would need to address these root problems before addressing your track bar. of course, with every episode of DW, you need to give everything a once over as it can/will be powerful enough to screw everything else up. for me, when trying to fix DW, i like to pull my steering stabilizer off as it can mask your problems and give you a false impression that it's fixed.

 

If you do that DW search on youtube you will find my Jeep doing its best impression of DW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwiv23dLhMY

 

I have had it at 15 & 30 miles but not above

At 15 I could get control back at 30 had to come to a complete stop

I think that my axel bracket is fatigued I have changed everything else will be installing the sky jacker front track bar bracket tomorrow

If it doesn't fix it I give up and will torch her

 

For me it happened at around 40 to 45mph.
Like WOL mentioned, my problem was a combo of bad bushing, loose bolts, wollowed out mounting holes.

 

My holes,joints,shocks tracbar are good so leaves me thinking mount on axel is fatigued because it looks a tad bit out of shape

 

Had DW once at around 20mph.
Did many changes to stop it.
One thing that ORE pointed out was the excessive flex at the bow in my after market
adjustable TB when the steering wheel was moved back and forth.
Had to wait a few days for Teraflex TB to arrive so put OE TB on, less flex than after market one.
Hardly any flex in bow of TF TB when steering wheel moved.
So, another possible cause of DW could be the quality and strength of the TB and possible
continued weakness as it flexes. Just a thought.