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Old Feb 23, 2012 | 11:52 PM
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B4 considering a rough country lift plz read this. My son is in the army on a leave we did a 4 in lift, new ball joints, tierod ends, new adj. trackbar, new tires new brakes, new steering shock, I mean everything under frontend is new. GOT THE DEATH WOBBLE FROM HELL, Rough country said aftr calling them said OH YEA WE KNEW YOU WOULD WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! Why should they be allowed to sell something that they cant fix. My son hasnt drove his 04 wj in 4 weeks now, he's stuck driving a mini van,,, SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP, i have a tj but would never EVER put a rough country lift on anything agn
OHHHH by the way rebalanced tires 4 times now and been in the alginment bay 5 different times,, gotta get this fixed so he can do a lil wheeling b4 shipping overseas
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B4 considering a rough country lift plz read this. My son is in the army on a leave we did a 4 in lift, new ball joints, tierod ends, new adj. trackbar, new tires new brakes, new steering shock, I mean everything under frontend is new. GOT THE DEATH WOBBLE FROM HELL, Rough country said aftr calling them said OH YEA WE KNEW YOU WOULD WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!! Why should they be allowed to sell something that they cant fix. My son hasnt drove his 04 wj in 4 weeks now, he's stuck driving a mini van,,, SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP, i have a tj but would never EVER put a rough country lift on anything agn
OHHHH by the way rebalanced tires 4 times now and been in the alginment bay 5 different times,, gotta get this fixed so he can do a lil wheeling b4 shipping overseas
check the bolts on the piece they give you to drop the trac bar... my WJ wandered some so I jacked it up and shook it down. I found that piece was the problem and cranked all the bolts down and it helped but I plan on getting an adjustable trac bar soon........ hope this helps
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 12:04 AM
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I have an adj trackbar it mounts back in the orgnl mounting brackets
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 12:08 AM
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are the drag link and track bar parallel?
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 12:10 AM
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yeeeeeeep its been setting at a shop for a week now,, they'v giving up
tried settin caster at 6 and droppin a half degree at a time NOTHING
You can now drive trhu the DW but between 40 and 45 HOLD ON

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Huh... do you have at least one of sway bars hooked up?
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 12:16 AM
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YES , damn i thought we were doing this right by replacing everything to new i just dont know whats left to do
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Huh... do you have at least one of sway bars hooked up?
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 12:21 AM
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and is it shaking or......... does the *** end flop side to side and feel like your gonna role (death wobble)
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 12:26 AM
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Cousin followed me to the shop he said my front tires looked like a shopping cart going 40 mph
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and is it shaking or......... does the *** end flop side to side and feel like your gonna role (death wobble)
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 12:33 AM
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a list of new parts,ROUGHCOUNTRY 4 in lift, new tires, brakes, all new ball joints, all new tierod ends, adj track bar,5 alginments,4 tire balance, caster starting at 6 went down a half degree each time still got the wobble,,, and i might add when using the adj trackbar the new drop pitman arm is no good you have to put the stock 1 back on(that come from a RC tech) they didnt tell me that when i bought the new adj trackbar this was after it was in the shop after like 3 alginments
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I guess I'm better at breakin them them fixin them. my rc lift has made me happy on my wj but its my dd... if its both your tires shaking I'm not shur its from the lift. did the pitmin are go on nice? someone smarter than me will read this and know whats up
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 12:45 AM
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Yea it went on fine, it didnt have this wobble b4 putting the lift on, the tire shop put the stock pitman arm back on, thanks for all your input i'm just a dad trying get this thing fixed and its 1245 and i heading to bed
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I guess I'm better at breakin them them fixin them. my rc lift has made me happy on my wj but its my dd... if its both your tires shaking I'm not shur its from the lift. did the pitmin are go on nice? someone smarter than me will read this and know whats up
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Sounds like maybe your draglink and trackbar angles are way off (from parallel to each other)...???
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I was going to say something till i realized this was posted in the wrong section.... Stop copying and pasting, one thread is enough and clogging others doesn't help either
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Old Feb 24, 2012 | 07:24 AM
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look what does it matter where this post goes this website is all about helping each other and sharing odds and ends on what we have done to fix **** with our jeeps maybe your just that one ******* out there. all i know is that this post has something to do with my wj and im looking for some help.
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