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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 04:00 PM
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Just finished the lift and went to go for a test drive was making some creaking from the leafs but ill assume that's normal I broke on of the front sway bar links so I didn't put it on of course but I was going about fifty and hit a bump in the road and the car started shaking horrible like the front tires were falling off until I pulled over and then drove fine again I did not relocate the trac bar yet do my tc drop or the pitman arm is that the problem or is could it be something else
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 04:22 PM
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It's called Death Wobble buddy & there's 2 causes: one is when you write a looong sentence with no punctuation like commas or periods.


The other cause of Death wobble is ... well something is out of whack with your suspension - quite often the track bar mounts or some other component is loose. It can take a while to troubleshoot this, but start with the track bar. Ya might get lucky.
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Old Sep 8, 2010 | 09:50 PM
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http://kevinsoffroad.com/techarticles/deathwobble.html
nice write up on death wobble.
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