death wobble!!

[SUPERFLY]

my truck gets death wobble and im freaking sick of it! its and 85 toy with high steer. ive gone throught and tightened every bolt i can imagen, my tie rods were bad so i relplaced those and now it seems to have gotten worse. so please any advice would be great!!!

 

[I Lean]

A) check your caster and toe.
B) check your trunnion bearings.
C) How are your shocks? Weak shocks can make it worse
D) steering stablilizer can mask the symptoms, maybe even enough to "cure" it. (but you should still find the cause if you can, cuz it's not going to get better by itself)

 

[waynehartwig]

Check your toe in...

 

[monobeam94]

You should join my, P.O.S TOYOTA CLUB. I will e-mail you an application......
Get your tires balanced, it makes a huge difference.
I got my tires balanced and it stopped the death wobble, but I have knocked off most of the weights from rocks and now I have death wobble again.

 

[sbr]

Alignment

 

[gijohn40]

bent rims...

 

[waynehartwig]

Pizza and beer....

 

[leorn]

option...

2 words: hydraulic assist.
This will fix whatever it is that is really wrong

The death wobble in my 85 4runner was due to loose front shackle bolts. You should find out what is really wrong, but hydro assist will fix ya permanently.

 

[Meat_]

2 words: hydraulic assist.
This will fix whatever it is that is really wrong

The death wobble in my 85 4runner was due to loose front shackle bolts. You should find out what is really wrong, but hydro assist will fix ya permanently.

You can still death wobble with assist

 

[SAMI]

2 words: hydraulic assist.
This will fix whatever it is that is really wrong

The death wobble in my 85 4runner was due to loose front shackle bolts. You should find out what is really wrong, but hydro assist will fix ya permanently.

why does your 4runner have front shackle bolts? it shouldn't have front shackles at all...

-Jason

 

[xj283]

toyotas have shackles too. You should check you spring and shackle bushings.bushings

 

[leorn]

You can still death wobble with assist

I stand corrected. I have not had it since I installed mine, and others have experienced the same. I even increased tire size 5 inches, and it has not returned. For death wobble it functions similar to a steering stabilizer.

why does your 4runner have front shackle bolts? it shouldn't have front shackles at all...
-Jason

You don't run a shackle with your leafs??? Tough to flex without them. Sorry I couldn't resist. No I haven't done a shackle reversal if that's what your implying.

 

[Meat_]

I stand corrected. I have not had it since I installed mine, and others have experienced the same. I even increased tire size 5 inches, and it has not returned. For death wobble it functions similar to a steering stabilizer....

An assist ram will knock the **** out of death wobble but you can still have bad TRE's

 

[SAMI]

You don't run a shackle with your leafs??? Tough to flex without them. Sorry I couldn't resist. No I haven't done a shackle reversal if that's what your implying.

when i read that you said front shackle... i was thinking you meant literally a front shackle.. as in, in the front of the front spring... my brain is overly fantastical like that sometimes...

 

[leorn]

I knew you did. just givin ya a hard time.
I do want to emphasize. Fix whatever is causing death wobble BEFORE you get hydro. (if you choose to get it) I still check my shackle bolts each run, I just don't have any warning sign that they are loose now.

 

[SUPERFLY]

it tracks perfectly straight and the tires wear fine so i dont think its a caster or toe problem but my leaf spring bushings look like crap so ill try replacing those.

as for the pos toy club... check out mountainyoats.com we got you covered..