rowtareh

Ok, shakes violently when accelerating from 45 on up. Does not do it 100% of the time, but when it happens, I have to pull over. It's really starting to **** me off because I took it to the dealership thinking I just needed the tires balanced and rotated. They said it was the steering stabilizer and said it would "fix" the problem. I say great, do it to it! No charge, under warranty, said awesome! I leave, nothing happens as I go to the post office, it starts RIGHT as I leave the post office. I pull back into the dealership and say it's not fixed, bitched a fit, yadda yadda. They said "Oh yeah, your rotors are probably warped".



Now my question is, what does the rotors being warped have to do with the steering stabilizer? Would that only apply when braking, or when accelerating? Seriously, what the **** is going on here? This is my only means of transportation, and it's unsafe. I don't want to spend 100.00+ and find out it's not the problem.



Does anybody have any clue, or is the dealership I took it too a bunch of retards in monkey suits?

phinsup

u sure its in the steering? sounds like it could be the ujoint, on the wrangler the one at the dif is usually the issue as there is a slip joint at the tcase. the worse you driveline angle the more often they ****, i had to replace mine on the cj everytime i beat the **** out of it.

rowtareh

well, you may be right...car does not pull at all, in turns, when braking, or accelerating...i will check on it in the morning when I change the oil. what should I look for though? not really sure.

phinsup

check the u joints where they meet the diffs, front and rear. Grab a driveline and try to move it, if it moves it's REALLY shot, if not inspect the ujoint itself and see what it looks like, they'll usually look a little discolored on the jips if they've run dry.



If you've had a cj or yj for any amount of miles and haven't replaced the ujoints they're prolly ****, get good at replaceing them, i used to be able to do it on the side of I5 in rush hour traffic in under 30 mins, yea i did it a lot. Also, if you've been beating on it check the driveshaft and make sure it isn't twisted. I twisted two of the pencil size front drivelines and finally broke down and bought a beefed up one.



I haven't spent much time on the tj's, but my guess is they are no different.

isamu

I had to replace both u-joints on my rear driveline before I upgraded it. They lasted about a hundred thousand miles of mostly basic driving.

phinsup

Yea if you have no lift and you arent beating the **** out of it, that's a different story. Of course you might as well buy something reliable if yer using it as a dd

teknics

yea normally that death shake you seem to be describing is the front steering stabilizer. the stockers suck.



vibes are hard to diagnose without the car in front of me, especially on a wrangler cause there are so many possibilities lol.



kevin.

jds88vert

I just came from a jeep dealer and more often then not the death wobble if not cured by a steering shock was due to a slipped belt in a tire, they will balance fine until weight is put on it then it goes to ****, see if some one near you has a road force balancer, that will tell you right away considering there is no way to see this problem. I replaced tons of tires with no miles on them because they just went to **** internally.

jds88vert

oops, also check the trac bars, we had a huge problem with the front trac bar mounting bushings falling apart which will cause the same effect.

teknics

yea trac bars are another common thing.



if they dont have a road force thing try having them rotate the tires and see if the shake changes, if it does then your tires are prolly fubar.



kevin.