Being a long since retired Bull Rider, that metaphor is not logical.....lol.

I guess I can see that if it is in a truck. Only problem with bull riding is the getting off part - whether you made it 8 seconds or not!

 

How did they put your wheel weights on? My shop used sticky weights on the inside of the wheel, and it still isn't right. I have a bounce/hop at 60 -70 mph.

 

you check the wheel bearings?

Ours nearly broke off our truck on the highway while towing... scary as hell. Ours made an audible clicking noise but that may not always be the case.

 

I have found that tire balancing is important. Although my wife's 2000 Tundra has seriuosly weak brakes up front. The rotors and pads are too small and will cause the whole truck to shake no matter what you are doing and at all speeds.

 

steering dampener is probably bad you can look up wranglers they have the same symptoms

 

Wranglers have the same problems because they have the same suspension design up front. A bad steering stabilizer will not cause death wobble. I drove a v10 4x4 2500 with NO stabilizer up front for 8 months and never had death wobble problems. Something else is wrong with the front end.

 

You can't compare a truck that's not exactly the same down to the last variable a v10 will have more weight on the front axle #1 #2 your v10 2500 has stronger suspension both of those will give more stability now he also mentioned uneven tire wear on the front tires so that's not an accurate diag. Now he says he has the stock stabilizer at this point if I was working on it I would rotate the tires and swap the stabilizer to see if it improves worsens or no noticeable change occurred even tire size counts your changing the geometry when you change tire size increasing or decreasing steering angle with height and scrub radius with width if nothing changes after the rotate and swaped stabilizer then proceed and if it was a wheel bearing I'm pretty sure you would hear it and I'm guessing pitman arm and idler arm were checked correct?

 

I still stick to my guns that a steering stabilizer is NEVER the culprit of death wobble. If it does fix it, it is simply a band aid.

When death wobble happens, it is because there is slop in the steering system. If the system is tight, the symptoms could not exist.

 

I would concur that steering stabilizer is of no contribution. It's just a dampener and offers no stiffness. Remove it altogether and it's merely undetectable.

Additionally, how would you compare radius arms to 4 link? Is there a wrangler year that had 4 link? afaik...they all or mostly have radius arms ergo not comparable.

Anyways, I would agree with balancing, if not at least ruling it out.

 

Wh1t3... Sorry but every jeep from tj to present has been 4-link w/panhard, just like us. It's the exact same system. It originated in the 1984 xj and was adapted in1994 for our trucks and later on, the TJ.