2000 Disco II: At any speed I notice a very slight front end "wobble" as I drive over a bump in the road. Seems fine after a "mili-second". Any thoughts? Ball-joints, steering damper, ?
Tires have been repalced with and made some improvement .
Thanks for your help,
Chip

 

On my new-old '00 just purchased last week, the front end was *very* squirrely in several situations, and replacing a front driveshaft with a pretty poor CV joint fixed almost all of it. It's still a *touch* more sensitive to bad pavement conditions than I'd like, but now it just wobbles like a normal truck, instead of floating around unexpectedly like it was.

 

if you don't have greasable u-joints in driveshaft, you should replace it/rebuild it anyway.

might help with your wobble.

 

BayLink, what exactly did you replace, a CV joint or a U-Joint?
Bad tires, warn out coils and shocks and a tired can cause a wobble along with many bushings and a few tie rod ends.

 

I replaced the front driveshaft, from the XC to the front diff; the CV joint at the rear of that was going bad. The replacement was just rebuilt, properly, with zerks.

I discovered today that, in addition to the very slight wobble/flutter from the front end, the truck is *still* a bit squirrely, and the situation in which it is, is when on longitudinally grooved concrete Interstate pavement.

On nice smooth recent asphalt, it's just fine.

 

it could be your tie rod ends or bushings or it could be the road itself. my truck does that on one particular section of highway by my house but no where else. its grooves that have been dug into the roadway by many years of traffic.

 

remember to make sure that you are running the correct tire pressure, front is usually less than the rear. My DI was almost undrivable until I made sure to check the tire pressure, wow, what a difference a few pounds made. Phil