What is a DEATH WOBBLE you ask???
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What is a DEATH WOBBLE you ask???
Papa Dar has 3 jeeps and him and Paul had done work on this particular one previously. They hadn't got to the steering and front end yet and the jeep had a horrible death wobble that needed to be fixed. What exactly is a death wobble? Check out this video to find out!
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DIO...lol
I usually watch Matt's channel but since the golden nugget been watching fab rats and came to the conclusion. This man is a talented son of a gun and I'm kicking myself for not watching this channel along time ago. Great job fab rats!!!
Matt show led me to Paul's and to rorys shows as well. Something in the water in southern Utah.
Same here, I rotate between the 3
I enjoy watching a master fabricator at work. It is great that you show each step as you go. Nothing just magically appears.
It’s cool to see this perspective. Most build shows give an unreal perspective on working on cars
Papa Dars a lucky man. Paul will fix it easily, everytime. Enjoyed every one of your videos
Heard all about the death wobble owning an XJ but never had one until I had one. You never forget it.
That JEEP is so old school metal it has a DIO sticker on the windshield. I bet many a head was banged in that cab!
Another fine video, thanks for sharing it with us. We've had death wobble like that in our '03 Dodge pickup with the Cummins. When we talked to Chrysler of course they say that can't happen....
Cured it in our case by putting in the steering components out of a 2009 truck which were much, much larger, fresh upper and lower ball joints and new tires. It seems to be worse with worn front tires in our case.
It surely does get one's attention when that happens at freeway speeds, that much is for sure and certain.
Thanks again and stay well.
Even got the steering wheel lined up straight... what a nice guy!
Being a dodge guy, I know that feeling! toeing out helps mask it, but usually it's the track bar that's worn out.. On solid axle front ends with the tie rods in front of axle, what happens is the axle can shift, the weight transfers to the outside, which makes the axle shift to the other side and doing that turns the front wheels in a different direction, so the chassis rebounds and the process repeats
Every time I get in a new to me old Jeep, I always prepare myself in case of death wobble 😂
Thank the lord for codder pins. I never understand why people wait to upgrade steering till after 4.5” of lift and 35” tires and are pissed they have death wobble. After all my death wobbles ill forever add one ton steering EVERY time i buy on old new jeep.
When I was 18 all those years ago I had that wobble on a 66 international scout. Scared me half to death
Awesome job, that'll make it a lot nicer to drive around...
I'll be taking out my off-road overland camper build after church tomorrow for the first time. I took it on about a 60ml drive today and it pulls great 😊👍
Well I'll talk with you all later. Have a great weekend with the family...
As always...
Keep your tires aimed at the ground and your eyes upon the Lord 😁👍
I love it when it all goes together smoothly. Tear everything out an start from scratch.
Everything is solid and simple.
Great! This is the exact setup i needed to figure out for my Tacoma
Back in 2001, my Dad had a (1994?) Jeep Grand Cherokee. I was driving it one day, merging onto a high-speed off ramp about 1/3 way through the turn it starts to death wobble at 65mph. between being a relatively new driver and not knowing what to do beyond slowing down and try to get it to the shoulder without crashing - it was an experience.
I’m slowly building a 93 Ford Explorer with my stepdad it’s my rig it’s got some Dana lockers front and rear and new motor and some other stuff so far lots to go on a low budget but we’ll get her done
Sounds great, any time you can do a fun project with the pops is time well spent. My dad wouldn’t work on cars with me, I had to help him garden lol
Hahahaha the look on Dars face during death wobble
Gripping the steering wheel too!
Seen the steering right to go straight going down the road....so that showed that front end had major issues.....GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul, you make that look easy. I'm amazed at your expertise. Thanks for another great video.
Lol I found Paul, and the Matt’s towing videos by searching for cure for death wobble. Awesome vids awesome families living the American dream!
These were the good old days. This is what brought me to your videos…and kept me there.
Remember guys?
I had a 1983 gmc do that when I bent the tie rods after running through a fence. Lol really fun drive back to town.
I like watching your channel because you work and talk. Instead of just talking your repair jobs work.
55MPH in an $800 jeep with a known death wobble. Just keep speeding up and I'll show it to you (and neither wearing their seat belts). :)
That's a man confident in his driving skills. Great video! Truly a skilled fabricator!!
There is an alternate description of this behavior.
My brother had that on his old Power Wagon. Many times it almost sent him into the toolies. Good video !
A little bit of this a little bit of that, make it pretty, make it permanent and it works.. every time, great job!
That "huge" fire made me laugh out loud🔥😂
I’ve always thought of steering as being this super complex geometry blah blah blah but this video makes me want to go and fix the death wobble on my jeep
Really enjoying your videos. Real, down to earth, funny without being rehearsed or cheesy. Caught on to you thanks to Matt's channel. You have a new subscriber.
Ive actually had a wheel fall off from death wobble, its fun till the rotor hits the ground lol. Good looking jeep!
When you see a lifted rig with a 5th wheel heading at you on 2 lane highway and it is wobbling yikes!!!
has happened to me once or twice towing a 5th wheel in the ram 3500
Death wobble happens to me every day driving an International LT625 class 8 highway tractor. The company is too cheap to fix it.
Paul... you make it look so easy to modify a jeep .... amazing how you do it.
Beautiful welding, no worry of your welds failing.
Seeing all the Jeep's makes me miss my old CJ7.... I rolled it at 70mph and it crushed me needless to say when I got outta the hospital it was gone. I hydroplaned it..... Them Mickey Thompson's were great in the mud but they're shit on wet roads!
Shimmy shimmy! Back in the day we had a 1946 Jeep that would do that at certain highway speeds. We used it mostly on the farm so not a big deal. It was also a banana! 👍👍
You make it look so easy.
To me it looks like your doing rocket science in your head.
Hi Paul, I friggin love watching you fix anything & everything because I love fixing everything myself too #FabRatsforlife
DITCH WITCH!!
One of the best directional boring machines I've used.
Also enjoyed the pressure sprayer/vacuum
Dio! Ronny James Dio the originator rock devil horns!
I HOPE they know that.
Jeep should be named Holy Diver
I recognized it right away 😈🤘
@@susanbarbier5053 Mormons aren't very into the devil music.
Exactly!!
Very surprised to see it cured without an adjustable track bar or new ball joints. Guess that linkage is strong enough to hold everything else in place
You have a full time job and you work out of your shop and help mat wow thanks for the videos
Michelle, I love the music you pick for these videos - especially the "Guess That Part with Michelle" game show music. I get a hoot out of it everytime I hear it. Thanks for all you do!
Thank you!! I’m getting better at guessing.😉
fellow utahn here, you are a master of what you do. Great video
Dynamic bead balance helps with death wobble.
Always in balance.
Makes sense to put your balance media right next to the road, where it does the most good.
Not on some rim half way between axle centerline and contact patch.
Dude I envy you so much! You possess all the knowledge and skills that I don’t seem to have. I struggle along and do my best, but I’m just a dumb mechanic that knows how to swap out parts and I’ll buy anything I need that would normally be fabricated by you. Absolutely love your videos I think you’re an amazing Fabricator!
A lot better set up. Great job Paul.Keep up the great work.☺️☺️☺️👍👍👍👍
Hey Papa Dar can make it a whole video without a nap!Just kidding, after that wobble don't think I could ever sleep again.👍👍
Great job guys and Dar didn’t even need a nap this time! 👍
My 1999 Tj had horrible death wobble. Fixed it with new control arms, steering stabilize bar (slightly bigger).
Nice job!!!
I want to straighten my wheels out with the steering wheel like that. You just do it of camera to tease me I bet. Haha
Thank you for the video, Kenny
we rented a brand new jeep last year and got death wobble every time we hit a bump on the highway because the front tires were 5# apart in pressure. We still got it some with even pressures, but not as often.
Excellent. The night driving description was great.
I really enjoy watching you do your thing.
Worn out parts yes, But Brand new Ford's and Ram's do this stock shady on a brand new vehicle. Great work.
First time I experienced death wobble was in a '76 Cheyenne lifted with 38's (back in the 80s). All I could think about was which house was I going to end up in and how bad. Years later, My daughters had a Grand Cherokee on Camp Pendleton that I ended up driving back to Central California. Enroute, I experienced death wobble 10x as bas as in the Chevy. Middle lane, Norwalk in heavy traffic. The steering wheel felt like it was jerking 90deg both directions at 50 cycles per second and the jeep was 4 feet off the ground. Semi, mid trailer to the right and seat cover firmly bung hole grasped. I got her over to the next exit by some form of devine intervention and parker her at a Doubletree. Unpacked my deployed kids stuff and got all in my wifes 4 runner and went home. The drive from Norwalk to south of Fresno was white knuckle through Bakersfield. I went back and picked up that thing with a car trailer and it was FOR SALE immediately. Both kids had half of what I got for it and Marine money to buy Toyota's when they each got back home. My younger twin asked why I sold "jeeper" and when I told her the aformentioned story, She laughed and said, "so they call that death wobble. Makes sense as that what it felt like when it happened to me"
Death wobble is no joke.... Glad you got Dar squared away!!!
I bought a 2009 Toyota 76 series Landcruiser that had the death wobble at 80 kmp. I had to come to a near stop for it to stop. replaced every bushing and bearing in the front end until i got rid of it.
LOL that wobble is insane .
never seen it that bad EVER !
Acted like the lower ball joints are missing lol
My 2019 Ford F250 Super Duty Power Stroke had the Death Wobble I ended up putting a Dual Shock absorbers with a 2.5in. lift on the front with a 4in. on the rear and now no Death Wobble at all.
Nice looking fix!
Gonna change the name of the channel to “Dar’s Jeep Repair”? lol!!
Of that’s who’s paying for they work, that’s who’s shit ya work on.
Loved this, and Paul forgetting some things (hahaha)
Man I need you for some fab work on my jeep lol. I've got a 98 grand Cherokee I'm chopping the roof off and Welling a full roll cage and building a lift and steering love the fab work and the videos
One of my favorite RUclips channels!
I think the square headlights keep my YJ from ever having the death wobble.
The square headlights and maybe 🤔 the leaf springs.
I have a 2012 Rubicon and it too got a case of the death wobble. So I changed out all the steering component and damper. The wobble didn't go away. Turns out, it was a bad tire. Yup. The stock wrangler tire had a broken ply. I changed the tires, the wobble went away. So, if you acn't detect any noticeable play in the steering or tires when lifted off the ground, chances are you have a bad tire.
lol I had this on my 97 wrangler. It would happen on every single significant bump on the highway if I was going over 55 and would go away as soon as I slowed down to 55. Got to the point that I knew where every single bump on the highway was for my commute, and which lane to be in if it was avoidable.
Had that happen in a CJ-5 with a cracked frame, and in a Chevy 4X4 with a separated tread. Hard to hold on.
Cool. I have seen a ton pf jeep for sale cheap. But they always say have death wobble. Didn't no why or what caused it. You made it look easy to fix
Look at how far the channel has come!
Every time you weld something I'm waiting for Matt to appear and pick the hot piece up
I love that you used drill stem from a HDD rig. Cheers
Always heard about "death wobble" but this is the first video I've seen of it in action. Great fab work! Too bad there was no "after" video
You're awesome you and your wife taking care of Darr
Great video showing Death Wobble is caused by factory design deficiency when lifted. Next visit should be to install a muffler. (lol)
Yes to get that problem on my old Chevy that was usually when the steering stabiliser shock was wore out.. Replace that and it would go away
At least now you have your own T shirt for doing that kind of work. Nice older jeep. No more death wobble . You made it look easy.
Lethal death wobble ... keep the videos coming !!
Good job. Nice fix. You seem to be able to accomplish anything on any project with all the tools and materials you need right there at your shop. Need a left handed widget extractor with a reverse taper...... hold on I think it's over there in the corner. Awesome!
I had the death wobble once on a 1966 CJ5 (Kaiser).
How did you get into fabricating cars, and how did you learn what you are doing?
It's facinating watching you spin your spanners and getting results.
My first over the road CDL truck had a wobble like that, I made the owner fly me home the second day...True story.
I spent three years battling DW on my 2005 Dodge dually.. rebuilt the whole front end, new tires, etc. Lessened it, but still happened. Finally a friend suggested a Thuren trackbar... expensive at $350, but it fixed it!! Woo. Turns out the track bars on these Dodges are total garbage (the Thuren site has a great description of the problem).
The death wobble was obvious, but it would have been nice to hear why the Jeep had it, as well as an explanation of what/how Paul changed to eliminate it.
He did say it was due to worn/loose parts.
As far as I know yer the only ones to capture death wobble on video!
Screw it I'm moving to Utah just so I can learn some stuff from you, Paul.
Do it!👍🏻
I had a death wobble on a skateboard going down one of the biggest hills in my town. I lost a lot of flesh that day.
I remember my Ford 3/4 ton where the pitman arm was so loose on the splines I almost rolled my truck getting stuck in the pavement ruts from heavy trucks .
I used to have a 68 Bronco that used to do that once you got over 45 you were good. Had that thing for 46 years. Got rid of it two years ago in Missouri originally from Northern California where I live.👍🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽✌🏽🤷🏽♂️🙋🏽♂️🤨😔😞. Mind it was a front shock stabilizer did go out.
I replaced everything on my steering except the steering box on my 2007 Jeep JKU. It still did not fix the death wobble. It ended up being bad ball joints.
Fixed mine about 55mph for mine to start. That's a steering damper. Mine was the track arm
Well morning to y'all hope y'all have a great day who ever reads this
Thanks Will!! Good morning to you as well!
Good morning to you as well, greetings from Germany ✌️
Thanks Will from West Middle Georgia !! Hope y’all have a great day.
Yall are welcome
I've dealt with the death wobble on some of my vehicles in the past. My son told me his Jeep was shaking when he hit a bump . He didn't know about a death wobble. I took a ride with him and when it started he just kept driving at speed. I told him he was going to damage steering parts and how to get it out of the wobble but being the hard head he was he kept doing it his way. Luckily the Jeep was sold before he destroyed it. I told the new owner about and he was a jeep guy and wasn't concerned. He planned on fixing it.
I absolutely love your videos and work! I’m the same way! Jack of all trades master of none! You have a ton of good ideas and I learn alot from you! Keep it up!
When I was a teenager, I borrowed the boyfriend's farm truck. No warning and 45mph later I learned why it was strictly a farm truck. It didn't break my arms but it turned my can of Coke into a fountain. By the way, that was just about the same time that DIO was popular. Gotta love DIO and the DEATH WOBBLE. The Coke fountain,...not so much. Now I'm going to dig out my DIO cassettes. LOL
Haha I had a dodge pickup with a death wabble in it and I could never find it. So good luck with it and I hope that you will be able to get his Jeep up and runnin.
How will you adjust toe-in if you ever need to ? The drag link bracket being welded to the tie-rod won't allow you to turn the center link.
Every Jeep I’ve owned as soon at the trac bar wears out (or breaks) this happens. Unfortunate you can never get used to it and it scares the Holy Spirit out of you every time 😂😂
That wobble could put in the ditch in a hurry. Good work getting rid of it!
My '75 C-20 just death wobbled on me today at between 35 and 40 mph. Seems the towing company that dragged her in for me this last time hooked up to my steering components and left her in park to load her,
bent a tie rod.
I thought she was pulling to the right a little more than normal. Not happy. It's an easy fix, but it's that time of year where my driveway is 6 inches of mud, and I haven't got around to building the garage yet.
I'd be happy with a concrete pad.
It's a good thing I own that little Comanche pickup truck for a bit, the queen of the death wobble. And I knew what was happening. Elevated the pucker factor a little and spilled my coffee.
OMG you don't want to be in your jeep when it does that. We were on a dirt road at the trinity site when I first experienced that. It took my husband a fair bit to convince me to get back in the jeep lol.Took us forever to fix ours. Enjoy your work and believe you guys could fix anything.
I experienced this horrible problem in my 04 Dodge Ram Cummins. Had the ball joints replaced - problem solved