Ok well I took my jeep into an alingment shop yesturday to corect the death wobble. They ordered a caster bolt kit so they could adust it. After $120 paid to them I still am having death wobble. Can some please tell me excatly what the problem is and what I need to do to fix it. If you can not tell me the problem can you give me a phone number to a good shop who knows what they are talking about. And for those of you who say a steering stabelizer will fix it I all ready have a heavy duty tera flex one. Oh the guy at my shop told me I might need two stabilizers. give me a break. He told me all you can do is mask the problem somtimes. Any help will be awsome.

 

Make sure everything on the front is torqued correctly. The track bar for sure. Look under the write up section and you will find torque specs for each part.

 

It is generally the trackbar. Pull it off and look at the mounting holes on the frame. Make sure they are not wallowing out. If they look good, put the trackbar back on and crank it down to 125 ft/lbs., or a bit more. (this is a lot, don't guess and just think you got it tight enough, really crank it down).

Did you get new tires at the same time as the lift? Check to see that they are balanced properly and wearing evenly.

If those are both good, check your balljoints.

You let them put CAMs on. This adjusts caster. Low caster causes flighty handling/bumpsteer, generally not Death Wobble. Keep an eye on the cams. Make sure they do not slip. If you decide to go to adjustable control arms, you will have to have the holes they made for the cams welded back up.

Steering stabilizers are a bandaid. They will cover up an issue and make the handling seem better, but will not resolve it.

 

Yes I did get new tires at the same time as the lift and I had them balance twice to be sure it was not that. I also used a large torque wrench when I torqued the track bar. The jeep only has 700 miles on it s I doubt the problem is due to wear. And yes 125 ft/lbs was quiet a pull. Does any one have a number to a good shop.

 

Has any one ever heard of that caster bolt kit for the front axle. if so is it worth it.

 

Did you torque the trackbar down when the JK was on it's wheels or on jackstands? With the JK sitting on it's tires, loose the TB at the axle, rock it back and forth, then retorque the bolt. Buy some adjustable control arms instead of cam bolts.

 

I think it was in the air I will have to redue that. Also it is in the plan to buy the control arms when the funds come availble. But right now the cam bolts will have to do. Thanks I will have the shop do that.

I just called the shop and they are going to retorqe the track bar so lets cross our fingers.

 

Do a quick search on the cam bolts. You'll pull up a ton of negative feedback.

As TF mentioned, you might consider getting a set of adjustable control arms instead. The downside, as I mentioned above, is that to install cams, they had to make some bigger holes in the mounts. Those holes will need to be welded back up if you do decide to go to new arms...

 

I bought a Teraflex tracbar (any good aftermarket one will do) and so far death wobble has been eliminated. Also, the Jeep drives much better than it did with the stock flexi-flyer trackbar.

 

The probably put cam bolts on