Scrappi

Yes on cell phone. Thanks for the link

Scrappi

Thanks so much

cb4017

My 08 JKU started to exhibit a shimmy/death wobble about 5 years ago. I kept it under control by making sure my tires were balanced and checking torque on my track bar. It finally got bad enough I knew I had to do something. I watched the diagnosis videos by forum member planman to figure out what to do.

First thing I did was check the torque on my track bar. Still good.

Next I checked the ball joints. I jacked up the front so the tires were just off the ground and levered the tires up with a tire iron. I could see the ball joints move and figure they were bad.

Then I started my Jeep and put the wife in the driver's seat. I had her put her hand on the top of the steering wheel and turn the wheel 90 degrees side to side while I carefully inspected the moving parts (engine running). I could see up-down movement at both ends of my drag link.

I installed new Synergy ball joints and Moog drag link ends. Problem solved. My steering feels like a new Jeep. I no longer tense up every time I see a bump in the road.

I was able to replace these parts myself. If you don't have the mechanical ability to do this job you can still do some trouble shooting and tell a suspension shop what you want done.

Good luck.

jeepmojo

track bar is the place id check first . That thing just is garbage in my op
i got death wobble 2 times changed that and it went away & never returned .

tasi

I had some same issues and my track bar was not torqued down properly as well as my stabilizer wasn't torqued as well. After tightening them down to the right specs its night and day now...

Horsebeater

I'd check the track bar as well. My 2015 has 12k miles and my upper bracket was out of round already. Added a synergy bracket and it fixed my problem.

Scrappi

Thanks everyone. I'm takin it back with all my info and see of they will fix me up right this time 👍🏽

resharp001

If you are experiencing DW, and a local shop couldn't find anything wrong with it on the first go around, that shop isn't worth taking the jeep back to a second time. Dealers are worthless in this situation as well. I would either 1) try another shop if there is one available, 2) find some locals that are willing to help, or 3) if you're unsure of what a bad joint looks like, take some high quality vids similar to planman's vids and post em up here and you'll get a lot of responses.

If there are local members around you, I think you'll find a lot of people are willing to lend a helping hand, especially with something like a DW issue. Are there any Jeep clubs in that area that you might be able to contact for support?

jeepmojo

or remove it to double check it . they replaced ss, & drive shaft, and checked alignment . and it still wobbled
I asked them to please check the track bar . They said its not that and did not remove it to see. So i then had TB replaced the with a tereflex monster on my own dime the next day or so. All wobbles gone . Dont count on A dealer to really look at things well. They could have saved the drive shaft and ss and wheel alignment parts and labor, if they just popped the track bar off to see the hole was wallowing slightly. For some strange reason they dont like to hear the word track bar. They love the word steering stabilizer . they even went as far as saying it was my tires. But i had them balanced twice and even removed the tires and tried second set to be sure . They said i had two sets of bad tires lol ( it was the track bar ) If you want something fixed right . do it yourself . Lesson learned
Rather than remove it they tightend it so tight it crushed the track bar bracket from factory a bit

Scrappi

[QUOTE="resharp001;4280236"]If you are experiencing DW, and a local shop couldn't find anything wrong with it on the first go around, that shop isn't worth taking the jeep back to a second time. Dealers are worthless in this situation as well. I would either 1) try another shop if there is one available, 2) find some locals that are willing to help, or 3) if you're unsure of what a bad joint looks like, take some high quality vids similar to planman's vids and post em up here and you'll get a lot of responses. If there are local members around you, I think you'll find a lot of people are willing to lend a helping hand, especially with something like a DW issue. Are there any Jeep clubs in that area that you might be able to contact for support?

This is the local 4wd shop. No other local places around and I'm sure not taking it to jeep service department. I will try to find some local help in the meantime. Thanks