Death wobbling piece of s#$t

[MCJK]

To experience the Death Wobbles, just air down your front tyres to around 10 psi and try drive over 40 km/h. Easy to reproduce with low tyre pressure, but wont solve anything.



This is my steering dampner, my JK currently hasn't had one for months and no DW??
It kind of indicates that the dampner may mask an issue but isn't the root cause.

[kalani]

Originally Posted by maddog

how is an adjustable panhard rod going to help shakes?

the point of an adjustable panhard rod is to centre your diff against the chassis. perhaps a panhard rod relocation bracket could help if lift is causing your drag link and panhard rod to run at wildly different angles.

the point of adjustable upper control arms is to adjust your pinion angle.. this may have a minor affect on the front diff as it's adjusting the castor which affects steering, but it's not what I would imagine would be the problem.

I never said it would fix DW, im only talking from experience about the shimmy shakes and lightness of steering after lifting the JK. After lifting my JK the steering was loose as hell and the car wandered over the road at speed. The track bars fixed the tracking and the controll arms fixed the caster. The JK is much better on the road now - thats my experience...

[J..]

After the fourth day on the phone to everyone I'm finally starting to make a little progress.

I've just been told this arvo Chrysler now does actually have a fix for the JK dw. It's coming from the US, but they currently dont have an eta. My rep is making further enquiries and will be getting back to me Monday morning.

[Mojotec]

Originally Posted by J..

After the fourth day on the phone to everyone I'm finally starting to make a little progress.

I've just been told this arvo Chrysler now does actually have a fix for the JK dw. It's coming from the US, but they currently dont have an eta. My rep is making further enquiries and will be getting back to me Monday morning.

...interesting. I wonder what the fix is?

[kalani]

Cool - very interesting....

[jbee]

Just like someone said a while ago they had a fix for the slow fill coming from the staes for the deisel --- no sign of that either that i have heard of

[davidd]

possible that they may be talking about the mopar kit for the control arms, to increase the castor, that's all i can think of. but the same dealer has told the same bloke about both fixes. hhmmmm.......