Crap... Death Wobble.

[SirXJ]

Well, my '94s death wobble is back.

The first time, I replaced the tires and all was good. About 9 months later, going down the road about 40mph, the old familiar lub-lub-lub-lub-lub is back.

I'm going to throw some air into the tires, they look a bit low.

Hopefully this is a one time thing... Which steering components tend to bite the dust first? Track bar? The Jeep has about 160k miles...

[AlohaBra]

Track bar first. A steering stablizer might help, but no sustitute for repair of worn ball joints or tie-rod ends.

Do you have "big" tires?

[SirXJ]

No... right now it is all stock (well, the 225 'option' tires).

Oh, and I replaced the stabilizer around a month before the new tires.

[AlohaBra]

Yeah...air them tires up a bit, fill with gas to make it sit flatter and then try it.

It might need an alignment also.

[SirXJ]

Alright... I'll try that first one.

The joints on the Track bar are pretty worn. (I guess 15 years will do that :-)

If air or an alignment don't work, I'll replace those.

Thanks for the info! I'll see what I can do.

[dave92cherokee]

Also don't forget to check that the wheels are balanced as you might have hit a pot hole and thrown a weight causing one of the front wheels to be out of balance.

[SirXJ]

Well, It's been a week and no DW. I simply aired up the tires. :-)

Quirky things, these Cherokees...