That's why I said it seems more like a wheel thrown a weight or tire out of round. He's running 70 in the video and then he felt like it was unsafe. I'm guessing it felt ok when he left the house but as speed increased he felt the wheel shaking. That's just a guess though.
I can tell you it isn't the stock parts that are bad, yours may have been but not everyone has bad stock parts. Something as little as a worn out bushing in the trackbar can cause death wobble, that can happen to any of them aftermarket parts or stock parts. I ran my stock trackbar on my JKU for 60,000 miles before I took it off and put on a adjustable trackbar. That same stock trackbar is on my buddies JKU and has been on it for almost 70,000 more miles, so in all that thing has about 130,000 on it. I'm not saying stock parts can't be bad, I'm just saying they aren't trash like what people want to have you think.
JKs had the same issues in the beginning, just like the JLs And JTs, most solid axle vehicles have this issue, you can read about it online, it's nothing new. You just got to figure out what's causing the issue and i can promise you 100% a steering stabilizer is not the issue or the fix. That's just a shock for your steering to take the rough feel of the road away. Take it off, your going to feel the road more but still be able to drive your Jeep. I remove mine for a few days when I put a lift on and drive around without it to see if I need to fine tune anything. If I can drive without it on and be good then I know i got everything dialed in. The fox stabilizer you put on made it drive better but there is something else going on with your Jeep unless it wasn't as bad as you made out and it was a bad stabilizer and you just was getting some road feedback when driving. There is a huge and I mean huge difference between road feedback, bump steer, and death wobble. People get them confused but if you get real death wobble you will k ow it and a steering stabilizer want fix it. All that's going to do is mask it while some major steering part is wearing out more.
Like i said before, i understand that it was most likely masking a bigger issue. its just what stopped my issue for the rest of the time i owned the JL. so whoever bought it will probably eventually develop the wobble again. I guess i don't know the other issues it could have been, but i cant imagine there is something worse than feeling like the front tires are taking turns bouncing 5 inches off the ground at highway speeds,..... To recap, i just want the issue fixed, there is no way jeep doesnt know that a steering stabilizer isnt the main cause. AND it hasnt worked in the passed. i totally understand that its not what the stabilizers job is. Like i said, back in 2018 i spent 2 months and 3 different dealership before i got a "solution". and now its been 2.5 weeks with my JT and they tell me they can get it back in until after xmas, which then will open a star case and give me a loaner car to drive for the unforseeable future.... nothing like driving a base model cherokee when you are paying a monthly note for a 45k vehicle LOL
I've got the fox stabilizer on mine as well but only because I'm OCD and when I put the Rubicon fox shocks on i wanted the Stabilizer to match so I bought one. But with that said it made zero difference from how mine rode and drove with the stock stabilizer on it, and I lost some slight turning radius with the fox stabilizer installed, i can especially tell it when making a sharp u turn. Not sure what you got going on but it's more than you needing a new stabilizer. If that was the case then everyone would have the issue, that's meaning all stock stabilizers would be bad and even then your not going to get death wobble from that. That Fox Stabilizer is just a stiffer shock which maybe took the extra give in the suspension out that was causing the death wobble but that's not going to fix the actual problem that existed, it's just going to cause that Fox Stabilizer to wear out faster than it should have
Well..... until then... I had the fox stabilizer on my wrangler for 3 years with 0 issues. The way I see it, I go through vehicles every 2-3 years, so I probably won't have the thing if/when the fox stabilizer wears out regardless. BUT from what the serviceman said at the dealership, he made it seem like there are various part numbers for the stock stabilizers. (AE, AG, AT... to name a few from what he told me) and there seems to be no rhyme or reason if they use one over the other.... in a different forum, a different stock stabilizer fixed their problem. So I'm not sure. either way, I've had the issue with my 18 wrangler and 21 gladiator. SAME EXACT ISSUE. When the time comes for me to get a new vehicle, it probably wont be a Jeep. which is unfortunate because i do like the vehicle.
You are absolutely correct. Temperature has a drastic effect on this issue occurring, but so is everyone else. I'll tell you what I've discovered. The DW is not caused by the stabilizer, it's caused by worn or misaligned steering components. The stabilizer helps mask those issues because Jeep has no available stock parts that can fix your problem. What I gave discovered is that the temperature drop affects the stabilizer's ability to perform. I bet that in the mornings when it's coldest that you experience the DW the most, but in the afternoon when it warms up, then it goes away. So, to get you by until you can get your suspension components replaced or recalibrated warm that baby up. Worked for me until I could get components replaced.
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The only way there is play in this connection is if the bolt is loose.
