One of my buddies has a 2000 dodge dually. You can be going from 25 to 40 mph and hit a bump and it will shake and rock until you almost come to a complete stop. It is so bad you can't really see where you are going. He has had a mechanic look at it and he didn't see anything wrong with it. What do you guys think about this? I know dodge has a problem with the "death wobble" but I don't know exactly what it is. So what do y'all think?

 

yep!!! thats death wobble.... our Jeeps had it too...check trackbar wear, then control arms and bushings.. go from there..

 

My 98 ram did the same thing and it was the pitman arm.

 

hi im new here and ive been having the same problem. im part of dodge truck world and they told me to get rid of the stock stearing stabilizer. have you checked that yet.

theres a bump on 495 that if i go any faster than 70 it does it scared the crap out of me. i think i slowed down to about 40 before it stopped.

dodgegirl05

 

are you talking about the bumps on 495 around Franklin, MA?

 

no over by exit 32 (westford, ma) are those ones bad too????

 

they've been working on them. over the summer i was doing around 100 on my bike and caught some air. scared the **** out of me.

have you ruled out bad shocks? i highly doubt its your steering stablizer

 

well they sure are taking a long time getting down here and fixing the bumps




the shocks shouldnt be bad, well i hope there not bad. they all were saying the stearing stabilizer. one guy changed his and went to a different one by superlift. i was thinking of getting a leveling kit for the truck but im not sure now but i dont think it should make too much difference.

dodgegirl05

 

steering stabilizers dont fix the problem, they more or less hide an underlaying problem

 

get your front end re-aligned and have the maximum amonut of caster that the tech can add put in. 99% of the time this fixes the problem.