From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sun May 08 2005 - 19:24:28 PDT
You signed "DW Survivor"
Try surviving it twice on a motorcycle doing about sixty.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Ternes" <racecadet@yahoo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Death Wobble
> ...and when you go and purchase new bushings, ask
> them for "track bar" bushings. ;) "Control arms"
> applies to a different part in suspension. Shucks
> though, what do I know, I have an 87 F350 sitting
> around somewhere and I didn't even realize that
> the front 60 even has a trackbar. ;)
>
> I didn't catch the original post, but I see that
> a thread has been started on deathwobble. I'd
> advise the original poster to search on
> "deathwobble" "death wobble" and "DW" and hit as
> many fourwheeling sites as he has patience for.
> Bottom line is that 99% DW is either caused by
> loose or worn componentry, a faulty steering
> stabilizer, or out of round tires. Searching on
> the above cited sites will just tell you where on
> the vehicle to look.
>
> Oh yeah, once you drop the track bar and press
> out the bushings or whatever you do to repair,
> the "turning the steering wheel" trick that
> Richard mentioned for diagnosis is actually the
> "trick" way to get the bolt holes lined up again
> in the trackbar - helps a million to have a
> helper (can be uneducated in the finer aspects of
> truckdom, just make sure he/she turns the wheel
> SLOWLY!).
>
> Cheers
> Bob
> DW survivor
>
> --- Richard <metal@fullwave.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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