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Old 05-19-2017, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by jbennett
How about swapping front and rear shafts? I'm surprised your pinion angle is so close to perfect. It has to be off if your caster is correct. Curious to hear what your fix finally is, I'll be getting into this on mine soon, not sure what other options you have.
It was perfect before with 3" lift and before I clocked the transfercase, it's a little off now but still not bad. I have tried swapping shafts before, but haven't with this set up yet, and wouldn't really be a fair test at the moment because I only have one shaft since tom woods is going to "check it out" and see what the problem is. Probably will end up getting a refund from them and getting an adams shaft or Carolina driveline
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Well I experienced death wobble for the first time today. That was fun
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Well I experienced death wobble for the first time today. That was fun
First time it happened I nearly sh*t myself! I was doing 60 on the freeway, hit a pothole, and thought I was going to die. Nothing stopped it except for coming to a complete stop and pulling over to the side. Fun times!
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First time it happened I nearly sh*t myself! I was doing 60 on the freeway, hit a pothole, and thought I was going to die. Nothing stopped it except for coming to a complete stop and pulling over to the side. Fun times!
I was literally mall crawling... I went over a speed bump in the mall parking lot...
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Death wobble = too much fun. Try doing it at 80 mph. Hope you get that figured out though. I sold my last xj due to non fixable dw out of nowhere.
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Death wobble = too much fun. Try doing it at 80 mph. Hope you get that figured out though. I sold my last xj due to non fixable dw out of nowhere.
Well usually I've heard it's caused my worn out bushings, well the entire suspension and steering is all brand new...
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Well for anyone who cares or wants to join, I'm headed up to uwharrie this weekend for some wheeling
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Also, just put in a stock front driveshaft and vibrations are gone. Guess tom woods shaft is going bye bye.
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Originally Posted by SatiricalHen
Also, just put in a stock front driveshaft and vibrations are gone. Guess tom woods shaft is going bye bye.
That's weird. And I'd join you wheeling but I'm up here in Ohio so try to to break anything
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Originally Posted by Lake00XJ
That's weird. And I'd join you wheeling but I'm up here in Ohio so try to to break anything
Doesn't surprise me one bit. The first shaft they sent me was terrible and this one wasn't much better. I just assumed it was something else on my jeep but I guess it was just their shafts the whole time. I ordered an adams shaft today so we'll see if it gets here before I leave and if not I'll be rocking a barely fitting front shaft. Barely fitting meaning at full droop the splines are showing in the slip...
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Adams wont let you down. Glad to hear you finally ordered one. For me, it normally takes 2 days to get. But i am only 1 day away for shipping. You, not so much.
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Adams wont let you down. Glad to hear you finally ordered one. For me, it normally takes 2 days to get. But i am only 1 day away for shipping. You, not so much.
They said expect it to ship Wednesday and it takes 4 days to get here.
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Well I have a new front driveshaft coming, a rebuild kit for a rubicon express trackbar so I can put that with the brace and bracket in, rubicon express disconnects, have shims and center pins waiting on u bolts I ordered, and I think that's about it for now. Tired of spending money on this thing, hoping the rubicon express disconnects are longer and will push the sway bar higher hopefully keeping it from hitting the coils like it does now. Decided since I have the rubicon express track bar and bracket I might as well use it since I do wheel my jeep and don't want to screw up the frame. Need to shim the rear for a very slight vibration and need to get some wheeling in to make me feel better about all the ramen noodles I ate to make this work haha
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Originally Posted by SatiricalHen
Well I have a new front driveshaft coming, a rebuild kit for a rubicon express trackbar so I can put that with the brace and bracket in, rubicon express disconnects, have shims and center pins waiting on u bolts I ordered, and I think that's about it for now. Tired of spending money on this thing, hoping the rubicon express disconnects are longer and will push the sway bar higher hopefully keeping it from hitting the coils like it does now. Decided since I have the rubicon express track bar and bracket I might as well use it since I do wheel my jeep and don't want to screw up the frame. Need to shim the rear for a very slight vibration and need to get some wheeling in to make me feel better about all the ramen noodles I ate to make this work haha
If you don't daily it anymore, take the sway bar off. Can't hit the coils if it's not there... but yea wheeling fixes (or breaks) everything
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Originally Posted by Lake00XJ
If you don't daily it anymore, take the sway bar off. Can't hit the coils if it's not there... but yea wheeling fixes (or breaks) everything
Problem I I daily it and tow with it. Only reason I was able to have it Down so long was because I had a motorcycle, busy with college during the week with no where to go, and nice weather. Now I need the jeep again.


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