Brand Spanking NEW Death Wobble on way home...

[aFatBird]

They'll throw a stabilizer (dampener) on it because it's cheap and it will mask the real issue again.

Have them go over everything and check torques.

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You know what's funny, I had a seized falcon stabilizer that caused my death wobble. Only time a new stabilizer fixed my death wobble.

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[ShadowsPapa]

Problem with "checking torque" is that you can't without a torque wrench.
Just taking a big ratchet or wrench or breaker bar to it and seeing if it's tight isn't good enough.
Some of these use torque plus angle (so you need to find the rough equivalent in torque) and some use a spec so high, it is going to take some doing to get it "tight enough".

Unless the tech takes a torque wrench to each place - set to the proper FCA specs, and resetting it for each fastener checked, and then goes through the torque plus angle/degrees bit, they can't just check torque in a matter of a few minutes.
I found the 'torque + degrees' to be tighter than the specs floating around out there for years for the lower control arms.

 

[plumber802]

I have no idea if this will remedy what you are experiencing in your jeep but the FIRST aftermarket addition to BOTH our 2023 Jeeps (within 300 miles) was to replace the factory steering stabilizer with this:
https://www.quadratec.com/p/fox-rac...series-20-ifp-steering-stabilizer-wrangler-jl
They are now rock steady at any speed with absolutely no wandering. YMMV...

 

[ZoMojave]

Now is not the time to jump to conclusions.

Could you check the tire pressures please and post the results here?

Thank you!

 

[SpeedNeed]

Interesting video here:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/gopro-captures-jeep-death-wobble-up-close-and-yup-its-terrifying

 

[Redfour5]

Now is not the time to jump to conclusions.

Could you check the tire pressures please and post the results here?

Thank you!

36 psi on three 37 on the fourth

 

[Lunentucker]

You know what's funny, I had a seized falcon stabilizer that caused my death wobble. Only time a new stabilizer fixed my death wobble.

Nope.

 

[whysoserious]

Nope.

He could have fixed his death wobble by simply applying some of Hinkley Oil Company's NR-900 Death Wobble Fluid to the seized steering stabilizer.

 

[Mr.Wilson]

I pulled the steering stabilizer off my brand new JT to replace it with an FOX shock and it was completely shot. I even sent the owner of the dealership a video of me compressing the shock and it not extending. The FOX definitely helped!!

 

[Hootbro]

I pulled the steering stabilizer off my brand new JT to replace it with an FOX shock and it was completely shot. I even sent the owner of the dealership a video of me compressing the shock and it not extending. The FOX definitely helped!!

The OEM stabilizers are not gas charged for rebounding. Just fluid filled two chamber bodies to be resistive from each point of throw.

 

[Redfour5]

I drove 500 miles to get a 30% off MSRP. It's a Granite Crystal, Freedom, that in a Ram they would call "the night package and charge you 4K for "black accents."

The first 300 miles home I was going slow never engaging the cruise control, varying the RPM's constantly and under 65. Nothing happened. But once I hit 300, I said, OK, gonna try things out, went to like 77 mph (80 mph speed limit), put it on cruise, hit the transition point on a bridge and boom, there it is... slowed, down, at 58 mph, it goes away, and for the next two hundred miles, I identify exactly what triggers it from a driving/road stand point. Pretty much speed is critical. Under 65 mph, it doesn't happen. IF you are on the gas and stay on the gas and hit any irregularity in the road, like a repaired area, bridge transition areas, boom there it is... So, it's perfect. hit the start of a bride, big long ones over the Clark Fork River north of Missoula MT and get death wobble relatively violent...

So, Monday, I will be at my dealership and ask them to fix it. So, steering damper?, check. ALL the torque specs on every steering related fitting?, check. Camber?, Check, track bar? check, Ball joints? check., Understanding of the lemon law? check, Anything else to tell the service guys to to look at? This forum is great for helping in this kind of situation...

How do I get hold of those "Jeep Cares" people. I'd like to see if they really do, particularly since I called home and left a message for my wife saying if I died on the way home, it was Jeep Death Wobble... I figured some lawyer would check things out. That first one was extremely dangerous. If I had been on a bridge, with a semi next to me, it could have been a very bad outcome. I'm surprised Jeep doesn't key on this, or have a recall. This is a serious problem on a brand NEW Gladiator a few months out of production. I mean after all these years, you would think somebody would find this important.

I mean I read other similar posts to mine and they fix them with everything from new steering dampers, tightening track bars.

PS, in checking through the threads and posts, it appears that the "death wobble" is associated with mods almost always. Mine is a fresh off the dealer's lot, straight from the factory unit.

I found this from about 18 months ago. It' to me' eerily matches what I experienced. The poster is an engineer...

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/death-wobble.53737/

 

[Jimko71]

Have them check your factory tires. I went through this earlier this year. After throwing parts at my truck, they finally figured out I had two factory tires that we not only out of round, but they would not balance. They replaced them with Falken Wildpeaks and the problem (Shimmy/wobble/whatever) was resolved.

 

[Lunentucker]

He could have fixed his death wobble by simply applying some of Hinkley Oil Company's NR-900 Death Wobble Fluid to the seized steering stabilizer.

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