"What an idiot". Way to keep it fraternal and positive dude. Seriously? You're a "senior member"?

Hi all... Thanks to mntbiker995 for his helpful reply - "What an idiot". Way to keep it fraternal and positive dude. Seriously? You're a "senior member"? Allowing for the fact that I'm an idiot - here's a follow up for those who care.... I'm just an idiot.

Let your "Jeep officianado" friend know that what you just described is not death wobble

Planman,

I recently purchased a '98 Grand Cherokee Laredo as just a daily driver and have a good wobble from 35-45 mph. Once you hit 50 it evens back out and there aren't any issues until you slow down again. I've spoken to a friend of mine who is a bit of a Jeep officianado & he even said it was DW. Although it doesn't seem to be full blown yet I realize it to be imperative to fix ASAP. Having read your whole post and watching part one of your video I have a starting point but was wondering if you had any suggestions or an idea of where to start looking based on the symptoms i described above. Any and all help would be much appreciated!

Planman,

I recently purchased a '98 Grand Cherokee Laredo as just a daily driver and have a good wobble from 35-45 mph. Once you hit 50 it evens back out and there aren't any issues until you slow down again. I've spoken to a friend of mine who is a bit of a Jeep officianado & he even said it was DW. Although it doesn't seem to be full blown yet I realize it to be imperative to fix ASAP. Having read your whole post and watching part one of your video I have a starting point but was wondering if you had any suggestions or an idea of where to start looking based on the symptoms i described above. Any and all help would be much appreciated!

Is there any indication that a steering box brace could be the cause of a problem? I replaced my steering box with a mopar reman from Rock Auto and when I did , I also installed a synergy sector shaft brace as I already had their track bar brace. Well 3 weeks later ( no off roading or mall crawling) and the box starts leaking from the seal around the sector shaft and has play in the sector shaft bearing. I can see it trying to push the brace around. Install error? Bad reman box? I got a new OEM box from psc, but the question remains as to whether i put the brace back on.

first post, first rig. 93zj limited 5.2 stock
wow thank you planman!
i first experienced my dw hitting a rock around a corner at hwy speeds, i pulled over thinking id blown a tire. i didnt notice anything(but didnt really know what to look for). drove home without any major issue(500km). i drove for a bit with a speed dependant wobble. then dw at 120km\hr again slight turn hit dip in road and... had to stop and check, shop says everything tight but steering box and STEERING STABALISER. great replace stabaliser and tighten box. and all was well untill it wase't. was doing lots of hwy commuting and couldnt feel safe so i parked it till time&money alowed.

went through your check list after watching your videos. wife was not happy with the arm workout but i learned alot:

1. steering box to frame seams to twist at bottom all is tight no visable cracking of frame (could dw fatigue frame alowing twist?)
2. clunk felt at pitman arm TRE but no movement up\down. all the way to passenger side of drag link. all looks good.
3. traking bar feels good no clunk but up and down movement noticable at frame bracket end.
would this transmit to be clunk in draglink side? or is that likly in box or TRE?
axle side was tight but i broke it checking bushing so i replaced bolt(truck is metric) whole was not wallowed but bolt was coroded. used 10mm shank 10.9 bolt fit was tight torqed to 74lbs bushing could be moved with screwdriver but seamed tight.

4. ball joints and berings look good no movement

5. ca bushings with minor cracking and visual damage no visual sway when truck pushed side to side

6. sway bar bushings and link bushins look old and cracked

7. all bushings in rear craking and old looking, noticeable sway in her whole ***

i dont have a large channel lock can i squeez/test TREs another way?

i am going now to tighten steering box and see if i can tighten bolt on frame end of track bar it is TRE so we will see.

i guess im looking for the best/cheepest way to fix dw without replacing new parts again if i decide to raise it 2-4"

but that being said i dont have alot of money these days and need to make it safe first and formost.

1. replace track bar
2. steering box stifener(is it nessasary)
3. all new bushings (rubber complete)
4. should i replace control arms front and back top and bottom as a unit i read something about burning old bushings off(no thx)

i saw at kevins off road they have a dw kit for $530ish

KOR-1199 Super Durometer Bushings, upper and lower KOR-1109 (x2) Special Polyurethane Lubricant Tubes KOR-9001 Hard-KOR Track Bar Conversion KOR-7401 Hard-KOR Double-Reinforced Steering Box Brace KOR-9309 Hard-KOR Steering Stabilizer w/ hardware

your thoughts pls.

or just get ome parts.

thank you for all previos posts learning a ton

thanks for the replies all. since I am not 100% sure it's JUST the ball joints causing the death wobble, and it would seem the Chrysler Maximum Care should take care of it; I will bring it in to hopefully have them replace as many faulty parts as possible. I don't want to get caught throwing money at a specific part (say ball joints), and then it turns out something else causes the death wobble...breaking more parts and possible busting up the new ball joints i just installed...heh. best case scenario for me now is that the dealership gets the car driveable, and down the road i replace the ball joints with synergy or dynatrac ball joints. I called the dealer my appointment is on July 1st!!! There has been recent floods in houston, I think they are backed up. Thank goodness this is a 3rd car for us.