my front passenger tire is wearing uneven
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my front passenger tire is wearing uneven
Title pretty much explains it all. I purchased some better tires than I had before because the uneven wearing was causing my death wobble, better tires, bam fixed. Now about 2000 miles later the front passenger tire us wearing uneven bc my death wobble came back the other day. It has a 2" lift in the front with the stock trac bar (how it was when I got it). Could the lift and stock trac bar be throwing things off camber and actually making my tire cockeyed? The drivers side is fine though is what throws me off. Any other possibilities?
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It just got aligned the first of the year though...and I haven't done anything out of the ordinary the past 2 months
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I would have the alignment checked again. Alignment would be my first suspect for outside wear. you can check the wheel bearings and obviously everything else, but that should wear them on the inside, because it would let it be toed out, that is from being toed in.
Just to be clear, you had a tire wear problem and death wobble, you bought new tires without changing anything else and your surprised that you have tire wear problems and death wobble again?
Just to be clear, you had a tire wear problem and death wobble, you bought new tires without changing anything else and your surprised that you have tire wear problems and death wobble again?
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Ok I am lifting it in a few weeks so then I will just bear with it till then...
But I got the alignment after rolling it bc it threw it off alignment. Then I got new tires... Maybe that would cause issues alignment before good tires huh..didn't think about it...
But I got the alignment after rolling it bc it threw it off alignment. Then I got new tires... Maybe that would cause issues alignment before good tires huh..didn't think about it...
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Do yourself a favor and go through the whole front end while puting the lift on. Check the TREs, track bar, wheel bearings, all of it. If you have death wobble at your current height it's only going to get worse with more lift. You're just adding a higher center of gravity to be shaking back and forth. Search "death wobble" on here and start checking out some of the things people have had problems with. It's not the kind of thing that is going to go away on it's own and it can be quite unsafe. Trust me, I've been there.
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Ok im pretty sure its the alignment. When I got it aligned last it had tires that were really worn down in it. So when they aligned it, it made those tires sit even, but when I out evenly wore tires, they now sat off alignment, causing this type.of wear, thus bringing death wobble back. Is that accurate? When I first out those newer tires on, boom, no death wobble or any front end shake. So its gotta be that.
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Originally Posted by stowe
Do yourself a favor and go through the whole front end while puting the lift on. Check the TREs, track bar, wheel bearings, all of it. If you have death wobble at your current height it's only going to get worse with more lift. You're just adding a higher center of gravity to be shaking back and forth. Search "death wobble" on here and start checking out some of the things people have had problems with. It's not the kind of thing that is going to go away on it's own and it can be quite unsafe. Trust me, I've been there.
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Now if my passenger side brake is tighter than the other bc they were bled right, that could cause death wobble? Bc that's the only other thing I found...I put a set of 32's on earlier and it still shook a bit
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