Weird Shimmy

You know when you're washing your Jeep and the hose gets stuck behind the wheel? You only need a couple more feet to rinse off the last section so you give it a little tug and try to muscle it past the tire. That never works but you know from experience, the best way to shake it loose without walking all the way back there, is to give it the old sideways whip and sure enough, the snake action runs down the hose and sets the hose free just long enough for you to pull it forward another couple of feet…

Yeah, well my Jeep has been doing that sideways whip action while I'm driving down the road lately. At first I thought it was a fault in the road. Freaking DOT idiots don't even know how to lay down a flat section of asphalt. Good thing I have a Jeep. A regular car might have shifted over to the other lane. Then it happened again on another road. And then in my subdivision… Hey, wtf is going on here?

So I look up under the jeep and after about five minutes of searching I realize the bushing on my upper control arm is shredded and hanging out both sides of the bracket. I checked the other ones and they are toast too. One in the back appears to be completely gone. OMG, is this why so many people were trashing the RE kit last year? Am I a victim of bum bushings? Do I have death wobble?

 

That's a shame, I think alot of people are getting screwed with this. I think RE will send you replacement bushings though. You might need to change them every so often though.