Thread: The Death wobble vists me. Need HELP Urgently.

I too have had this problem recently. Changed the steering damper straight up with an RTC tough dog and the wobble was reduced significantly (was undrivable before) but still there. As others of said it is usally a combination of things eg. panhard bushes, swivel preload, tie rod ends, wheel alignment etc. This was the case with mine because as i worked through the list it improved each time until finally found out about swivel preload and did mine (there was hardly any resistance, just flopped side to side) and the wobbles have totally gone.

Originally Posted by prith

Could you kindly explain how you did the swivel pre-loads in detail.

JDNSW did a great post on swivel pre-loads a while back.

I really didn't get how it all worked until I pulled mine apart and rebuilt them.

The swivel bearings are horizontally or -ish. The distance between the bearing and the bearing cup is governed by a pile of metal shims. I went into my supplier and they sold me a pile of different thickness shims. When I pulled mine apart I found that the bearings needed replacing and some of the shims had rusted away.

The rest is a matter of trial and error, or was for me, putting in a pile of shims, testing the resistance with a spring balance, taking away or adding.

As soon as I got what the shims did it all fell into place.