Tire imbalance or death wobble?

[gearhead22]

If it's going to be a problem anywhere, it will be tire wear. Look for "feathering" across the face of the tires. If you see or feel none, you're fine.
Run your hand across the face of the tire left to right, then right to left. If it's smooth one way, but catches the other, it's a problem. If it's fine both directions, you're good to go.
Normally the only time you need toe out is when you have a large change in scrub radius - wheels, spacers, much different tire diameter, that sort of thing.

I’m running 37’s and a 17x9 -12 wheel. With prior settings I was getting by some odd tire wear but some of that could be explained from the tire imbalance or whatever is causing the shake.

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[ShadowsPapa]

Toe wear -

Running your hand across the face of the tire, it will feel smooth going one way, and you'll feel a feathered or saw tooth effect going the other way - not smooth feeling. Like petting the fur on your dog's back easy one way, ruffled the other way.

Also typically the outer ring of tread will be more worn than the rest. (that below looks like a pretty severe case to me)

 

[Minty JL]

∆∆∆∆ with that outer tire wear .......I will tell you what it is as I just went through this

Lifted JT, larger tires and 50k miles ......the ball joints are smoked. I'm at 32k miles and just installed the MC Baller Joints and problem solved.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

∆∆∆∆ with that outer tire wear .......I will tell you what it is as I just went through this

Lifted JT, larger tires and 50k miles ......the ball joints are smoked. I'm at 32k miles and just installed the MC Baller Joints and problem solved.

Ball joints can let the final toe fluctuate a lot from what you supposedly set it at and think it is. It's not just tie rods that impact the final toe as you go down the road.
I bet you toasted the stock joints in a grand way.

 

[Minty JL]

Ball joints can let the final toe fluctuate a lot from what you supposedly set it at and think it is. It's not just tie rods that impact the final toe as you go down the road.
I bet you toasted the stock joints in a grand way.

Yeah I should make a video of how floppy/smoked they were.

After the alignment I had some creaking in the front.........I had to re-torque the tie rod nuts, I was able to take the nuts another whole 360*, noises gone.

Freaking Jeeps need non-stop attention, this is when my lowrider days were better. Build and drive.

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