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Death Wobble 2006 4x4 3500 Ram

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Old 03-28-2019, 10:44 PM
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Took my truck to Selling Dodge dealer as steering was getting sloppy. They changed out front wheel bearings and installed supposedly upgrade T steering. Left dealership entered freeway and truck immediately went into wild death wobble, first time ever. Took back to dealership, they kept truck a week and said it was tires. Bought new set of Toyo tires, seemed to work ok for short time then truck did death wobble at 45 mph. Took to non franchised shop. He replaced passenger ball joints and pitman rod end as it was blown out. Shortly after it death wobbled. Took to another shop, said I should have done both sides, replaced drivers ball joints. Immediately death wobbled. Started doing things myself, saw play in steering box bushing, put on steering brace, death wobble, put red head steering box, death wobble, installed Moog bushings in track bar, death wobble, installed Moog T steering kit, took dodges system off, thought I had it, nope death wobble. Oh and put on Bilstein shocks and several new stabilizers. Pulled drivers lower control arm and checked other control arms don't see any issues, and inspected for a cracked frame. Wheel bearings are tight, but problem started when they got replaced. Any ideas, was looking at new truck but the prices are up a lot in 13 years, sort of would like to put lipstick on the pig I have. Oh and also had some custom wheel balance done at Les Schwab
 

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Old 03-30-2019, 12:21 AM
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sounds like you’ve replaced everything that could have caused the wobble. I was in the same situation, took years before it was finally solved. Have you gotten an alignment?
 
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Truck is at new shop now getting front end alignment and a dual front end stabilizer, will report back on how that works out.
 



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