The "Death Wobble" has arrived

[JeepNewb]

So after having my stock wheels and tires rebalanced with weights on the inside so i could repaint the outside silver, i now have the dreaded wobble.

 

I just received my 3" front spacers and 2" shackles in the mail today and was also considering a new steering stabilizer and possibly an adjustable trac bar along with a fresh alignment to see if that will cure the wobble. Anyone have any good recommendations as to whom i should order those parts from? I would like a bar that i can still use when i step up to a 6" lift.

 

Any other advice as to things i should check to cure my wobble is appreciated, she's not my daily but it sucks that i can't get over 50 without it striking

[jmderyke]

not be a smart @$$ but if it started after the tires got balanced Id think that would be the problem, maybe who balanced them fd up?

[Eagle]

Ya know -- if the tires needed weights on the outside to balance them, they can't be balanced if you put all the weight on the inside. It simply isn't possible. Who performed this (alleged) balance job for you? I hope you didn't PAY for it.

[Automan2164]

Ya know -- if the tires needed weights on the outside to balance them, they can't be balanced if you put all the weight on the inside. It simply isn't possible. Who performed this (alleged) balance job for you? I hope you didn't PAY for it.

 

It can be done, but only on a machine that's properly set up to do so. All the tire balancers I have used have a setting to put all weight to the inside. It takes into account where the weights are needed, and the correct amount needed if they were only place on the inside... Its not all that uncommon anymore, as a lot of manufacturers don't even put a lip for weights on the outside of the rim.

 

But, back to the thread. Take the truck back to who balanced it, and tell them to try again. And that your not paying for it.

Rob L.

[dasbulliwagen]

Most of those same balancers will allow stick on weights to be placed on the inside of the wheel toward the outside edge to at least get you some weight where it needs to be. Other ways to do it are to put the weights actually inside the wheel before the tire is mounted so there are no weights visible, and another way is to get some airsoft beads and put inside the tire to self balance. I don't have experience with the airsoft product, so someone else would have to chime in with this method.

[Akula69]

In answer to your question, in my son's truck we used all Moog parts (ball joints, trac bar and steering bar). They are just better quality.

 

I believe I'd get the balancing checked again first.