Followed Planman's plan and no more death wobble. I started out replacing the track bar bolts then replaced the track bar and steering stab with Teraflex equipment. Vola wobble gone. I did notice the OEM steering stab was toast!!! Thank god and thank you planman...

 

Glad my info helped.

 

Steering stab?

Edit: stabilizer. Duh. Glad you got it worked out. His video helped me out too.

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Mine was the same steering stabilizer was leaking got it changed and it was gone.... Glad to know another was saved

 

are we talking about the wobble due to oversized (35s) MTs?? I have a bit of a wobble...but thought it normal with knobby tires

 

I have 31" tires. I did however bump out my offset of the rims by 1", but really the Steering stab was dead!!

 

The steering stabilizer isn't the cause.

It fails when it can no longer mask the cause.

If all a person does is install a new steering stabilizer and not actually fix the cause(s), then the new steering stabilizer will fail prematurely as well. In the meantime, the cause(s) will get worse.

 

It seems apparent though that most cases of Death Wobble take quite a toll on equipment and can sometimes take weeks to figure out. With these reccuring bouts of DW, how does one still drive their jeep and minimize damage to other components in the process? That's when I think having a good steering stabilizer might help reduce the amount of potential damage done to other components while you search for the underlying cause of the DW. I think in this way a steering stabilizer may be beneficial, but obviously should not be considered a permanent "fix". Does this sound resonable? Or would the steering stabilizer only interfere with finding the root cause?

 

"Thank god and thank planman." By deduction, that makes planman a jk god.

 

The steering stabilizer interferes with finding the root cause.

It's like a GYN doing a breast cancer screening on a woman wearing a ski parka.

Say the problems are loose front trackbar bolts that have ovaled out the front trackbar bracket bolt holes, damaged the trackbar bushings, and damaged the drag link end on the knuckle side. The steering stabilizer only buffers movement in the tie rod. It does nothing to prevent further damage to the trackbar bracket.

There are plenty of pics out there of JK owners who did what you asked about and ended up ripping the entire frameside trackbar bracket completely off the frame at freeway speeds. They are luckily they didn't cause an accident or roll their vehicle.

It doesn't take weeks to figure out the root causes of DW. In most cases, it takes less than an hour. In complicated cases, it could take about 2 hours.

A vehicle with DW should absolutely not be driven until it is fixed.