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Old Jan 25, 2012 | 10:55 PM
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Even if the track bar does not have any play could the bushing be bad or the bolt be bad
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Old Jan 25, 2012 | 10:56 PM
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Iv been wonderin the same, you have death wobble too?
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Old Jan 25, 2012 | 10:58 PM
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No I having popping sound when I take off and make left turns
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Old Jan 25, 2012 | 11:00 PM
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O ok. Well i dont have good luck but it aint doin that......yet
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Old Jan 25, 2012 | 11:03 PM
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Yeah I don't think mine is related to death wobble in any I just have bad popping sound no one could help or answer me having mechanic look at it tomorrow it just makes it tough to drive cause I hate hearing it
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Old Jan 25, 2012 | 11:05 PM
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thedeath wobble sucks i have just came to terms with it tried everything
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Old Jan 25, 2012 | 11:05 PM
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Bet so. Good luck
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Old Jan 26, 2012 | 05:05 AM
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Originally Posted by 9greenmachine8
thedeath wobble sucks i have just came to terms with it tried everything
Stay on it. You'll eventually find it.

If it continues to occur and happens long enough, it will "destroy" other front end components like ball joints,, etc; it is very hard on the hardware when death wobble happens.

Mine turned out to be the track bar, even though it had only the tiniest "hint" of play in it. Took me longer than I expected to find it only because three of us that are well versed in XJs had already checked and ruled out the track bar. We were wrong.

Death wobble can be very difficult to track down on some XJs.

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Old Jan 26, 2012 | 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by tjwalker
...Mine turned out to be the track bar, even though it had only the tiniest "hint" of play in it. Took me longer than I expected to...
Same here! For the life of me I could not figure out the reason why my cherk would jump into another lane every time I hit a bump/pothole/cat on our crappy Alberta goat trail roads...just did the track bar on a hunch and bingo, now its much less of a white knuckle ride.
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Old Jan 26, 2012 | 11:07 AM
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Which replacement track bars are you all using? Thank you. JB
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Old Jan 26, 2012 | 11:50 AM
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I heard of using the ones off the grand cherokees because they are stronger? Is this false
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