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Old May 27, 2018 | 05:35 PM
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As amazing as this sounds... I started experiencing the Death Wobble on the way to work, when driving at around 65 mph and going under a certain bridge on the highway. If I increased speed, or decreased speed it wouldn't happen. I finally figured out that my tire pressure was set to about 44 PSI when I had some slightly larger tires installed. Dropped pressure down to 32 and problem went away.

Of course this was after I replaced a bunch of stuff in the front end, reset bearing preloads, etc.
 
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Old May 27, 2018 | 07:16 PM
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I do run e rated tires and hi psi, i am starting to wonder if my caster is off i did notice this dark spot on pass side rear bushing on the control arm at the axle, either something is bad there or the rear has moved after i hit that giant pothole at hiway speed
 
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Old Feb 24, 2020 | 03:46 PM
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Went through the list...tightened everything, checked everything, and still had the apocalyptic death wobble. Finally decided to replace my OME steering stabilizer with a TerraFirma, and now it's 90% fixed! I'm going to go ahead and put on all new ball joints, then replace the heim joints in my equipe steering setup. After that, well there isn't much else I can do. For now, I'm happy with a 90% solution...now if I can just get it to stop leaking.....
 
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Old Feb 25, 2020 | 08:50 PM
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My list went like this to finally get my death wobble to go away:
- New front wheel bearings (the old ones saw a bunch of use and abuse)
- Rebuilt swivels. Tore down the outers to just the knuckle and swivel, and they did not move smoothly. One was worse than the other, where it was herky-jerky while moving it.
- At least two tie rod ends/ball joints replaced
- Adjustable panhard with poly bushings installed. Over the years I used different bushings (rubber and poly) in the stock panhard on 3" lift... and finally decided to get an adjustable.
 
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