This past weekend I was out at RC for Topless for Tata’s (which was awesome!). Sunday I drove home six hours and had absolutely no issues the entire time. A few hours after I get home I leave to go grab some food and I don’t make it 50 yards before I hit a pot hole and get death-wobble at 20 MPH! Since then I’ve taken her out a few times and it seems that if I hit any bumps between 15 and 30 MPH then I get death wobble otherwise it’s all good.

While I was out there I know I tapped a rock with my tie-rod so now my steering wheel is slightly off center but it’s not too bad and it’s really just a matter of adjustment. What I just found out is that my steering stabilizer decided to fight with a rock and lost! The case got pretty banged up from the bottom as well as on the top from hitting the track bar and the rod is bent. I just ordered a new Rock Krawler tie rod and a Teraflex SS as well as Woods SS relocate bracket.

I’ve read a little about death-wobble and it seems that I don’t necessarily meet all the criteria to diagnose it as such but it’s the only way I can describe what’s going on. I checked the front end and everything seems to be tight. I know that as long as your alignment is spot on and everything is tight you don’t really need a SS but my question is if your SS is bent can it actually cause a pseudo death-wobble or should I be looking for a different problem? Thanks!

 

Drive it without the SS and see what happens.

 

I went out ant torqued the crap out of it... it was slightly loose and seems to have corrected the problem!!! Thanks!!!

I was going to try that but I also bent the passenger side mount enough that I'm going to need a pry bar which I don't have I have Woods relocate on the way so when I get it I can mess up the mount as much as I want trying to get the stock SS out!

 

If its bent, it'll cause some issues