Thoughts on shimmy
I have a 2015 two door with 2.5" Rock Krawler max travel with 35" trail grapplers. Rides great at city speeds and on the highway up to about 65. At 70 I get a shimmy. It feels like a tire balance issue but I have just had them re balanced and all good. Thoughts on what to check next?
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Originally Posted by phljeeper
(Post 4213698)
I have a 2015 two door with 2.5" Rock Krawler max travel with 35" trail grapplers. Rides great at city speeds and on the highway up to about 65. At 70 I get a shimmy. It feels like a tire balance issue but I have just had them re balanced and all good. Thoughts on what to check next?
You running stock drive shaft? |
Swap your front and rear tires. If the shimmy changes then you know it's the wheels/tires. If it doesn't you need to look at driveline and steering.
In my experience any speed sensitive shimmy or wobble has always been a tire/wheel issue |
Go up to the JK Write-Ups area. There is a diagnosis thread by Planman stuck right to the top...
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Originally Posted by Biginboca
(Post 4213725)
Swap your front and rear tires. If the shimmy changes then you know it's the wheels/tires. If it doesn't you need to look at driveline and steering. In my experience any speed sensitive shimmy or wobble has always been a tire/wheel issue
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Originally Posted by kjeeper10
(Post 4213734)
X2 (10 char)
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Originally Posted by phljeeper
(Post 4213698)
I have a 2015 two door with 2.5" Rock Krawler max travel with 35" trail grapplers. Rides great at city speeds and on the highway up to about 65. At 70 I get a shimmy. It feels like a tire balance issue but I have just had them re balanced and all good. Thoughts on what to check next?
This spring I got gussets and a truss installed and to save some cash on the alignment I got some RE Geometry correction brackets. That moved my castor back to the 5-6 range and corrected the wobble problem completely. I will eventually get better control arms but for now the brackets help a lot. |
Originally Posted by Smudgeontheglass
(Post 4213890)
I have a 2012 two door with a 2.5" Rubicon Express lift with 35" trail grapplers. I didn't have castor correction when I first lifted the Jeep but it drove perfectly fine with the stock BFG KOs. When I upgraded to a used set of the Nittos it had a very noticable wobble at around 70-80km/h. I upgraded my track bars to Adjustable JKS track bars and that helped a lot with the "flighty" steering feeling but I still had the same wobble. I did a 5 tire rotation and had no change in the wobble at that speed. This spring I got gussets and a truss installed and to save some cash on the alignment I got some RE Geometry correction brackets. That moved my castor back to the 5-6 range and corrected the wobble problem completely. I will eventually get better control arms but for now the brackets help a lot.
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