Re: Death Wobble

From: Richard (metal@fullwave.com)
Date: Sun May 08 2005 - 09:41:27 PDT


Also, if the truck has a 'control arm' between the
front axle and frame, check that. My '86 F350
would death-wobble when hitting a certain type of
pothole. Only way to stop it was to slow to a stop.

As was mentioned....a very high pucker-factor... <g>

The bushings in the control-arm go bad, and allow
the axle to shift side-to-side. You can easily detect
bad bushings by standing outside the truck, and
turning the steering-wheel side to side. If the whole
truck is moving back and forth on top of the axle
(i.e. fender moving relative to tire), you've got bad
control-arm bushings.

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