Planning an XJ fire, bring stuff for smores!
I have had nothing but trouble with DW for the past few months and I've had it. This is the last straw, tomorrows work fixes it or it's gonna have a bad accident with a can of gasoline. Here's my sad story;
Have had a minor wobble for awhile now but only at 45MPH and I could drive through it by accelerating or else stop it by tapping the brake real quick... nothing major. Then things took a turn for the worse and it's been gradually getting worse. OK, here's what been done.
*Tires balanced
*Tires rotated
*New ends on tie rod
*New drag link and end at pitman arm
*New control arm bushings
*New superflex joints
*All bolts tight as hell
*Steering box seems OK
*No cracks near steering box (anymore.. welded and reinforced with C-rok inner and outer plates
*LCA and UCA mounts at unibody are solid
*LCA mounts on axle are Currie HD with skids, no probs there
*Ball joints checked, OK
*Hub bearing units checked, OK
*More air in tires (from 22 to 27, made it worse)
*Tried toe at 0 and 1/8" in
*Caster
-OK, here's where it gets fun. I have made shims and adjusted my uppers so many times that I never care to take a control arm off again. Tried less caster by taking all shims out from LCAs- little bit of wobble but dead feeling steering and no return to center. Tried more positive caster than what I had originally by adding original shims on LCA's plus another 1/8"- made worse than when I started. Went back to less positive caster by adjusting out my uppers a ways. Seemed OK aside from the dead steering, but no wobble. Then today on the freeway it hit. I had to stop in the middle off the freeway because it would not turn or stop wobbling, it was SEVERE :explosion So now I have what appears to be unpredictable hellacious DW! OK, back to the garage, going for lots of positive caster. Problem now is I can't get the first UCA back on. That axle won't pivot for nothing and I'll have to pick up a come along tomorrow (and new UCA bolt since I trashed the threads getting it out). All my tricks for getting the axle to move are not getting ot done today, WTF? Anyhow, better get t fixed tomorrow cause I am driving to Fall Fling in a few days. Maybe I will throw the Jeep in for the raffle party1:
Ideas anyne? Will tons of positive caster help this?
I have had nothing but trouble with DW for the past few months and I've had it. This is the last straw, tomorrows work fixes it or it's gonna have a bad accident with a can of gasoline. Here's my sad story;
Have had a minor wobble for awhile now but only at 45MPH and I could drive through it by accelerating or else stop it by tapping the brake real quick... nothing major. Then things took a turn for the worse and it's been gradually getting worse. OK, here's what been done.
*Tires balanced
*Tires rotated
*New ends on tie rod
*New drag link and end at pitman arm
*New control arm bushings
*New superflex joints
*All bolts tight as hell
*Steering box seems OK
*No cracks near steering box (anymore.. welded and reinforced with C-rok inner and outer plates
*LCA and UCA mounts at unibody are solid
*LCA mounts on axle are Currie HD with skids, no probs there
*Ball joints checked, OK
*Hub bearing units checked, OK
*More air in tires (from 22 to 27, made it worse)
*Tried toe at 0 and 1/8" in
*Caster
-OK, here's where it gets fun. I have made shims and adjusted my uppers so many times that I never care to take a control arm off again. Tried less caster by taking all shims out from LCAs- little bit of wobble but dead feeling steering and no return to center. Tried more positive caster than what I had originally by adding original shims on LCA's plus another 1/8"- made worse than when I started. Went back to less positive caster by adjusting out my uppers a ways. Seemed OK aside from the dead steering, but no wobble. Then today on the freeway it hit. I had to stop in the middle off the freeway because it would not turn or stop wobbling, it was SEVERE :explosion So now I have what appears to be unpredictable hellacious DW! OK, back to the garage, going for lots of positive caster. Problem now is I can't get the first UCA back on. That axle won't pivot for nothing and I'll have to pick up a come along tomorrow (and new UCA bolt since I trashed the threads getting it out). All my tricks for getting the axle to move are not getting ot done today, WTF? Anyhow, better get t fixed tomorrow cause I am driving to Fall Fling in a few days. Maybe I will throw the Jeep in for the raffle party1:
Ideas anyne? Will tons of positive caster help this?