rzr6-4
Senior Member
Sorry for the essay, just trying to be thorough.
09 2500, 204k miles, recently leveled with Eibach coils & shocks, 35x12R18 tires.
A few years ago back when I had no level and smaller tires I had my first instance of death wobble going down the interstate. Same set up happened a second time a year or year and a half later. I don’t remember exactly where in the timeline this fits but at one point I realized my drag link ends were shot so I replaced it, so it is fairly new. Then I put the bigger tires on it about a year and a half ago but still no real issues for about a year, then suddenly after having DW again it became more and more frequent. It became once a month, then once a week, now it’s gotten to where there’s a couple rough roads near my house that I just can’t drive on because it’s guaranteed.
Steering has recently started to feel a little bit weird, simultaneously heavy and resistant but also twitchy at the same time, it’s really weird. When I feel the fateful jiggle, sometimes it’s very subtle at first and then goes full, and sometimes it’s just zero to hold on in a heartbeat.
What I’ve checked/done to try and fix it:
Second would be the steering stabilizer, but as I’ve seen others suggest, the stabilizer is just masking an issue somewhere else, if everything is as it should be the stabilizer shouldn’t be that important. If it is shot though, I have no idea how to check that.
I am running out of things to check so I will take any suggestions at this point. It does OK on gravel but no matter where I’m going I have at least 10 miles of payment to get there so as far as I’m concerned I have a $10,000 chunk of scrap metal sitting in the driveway if I can’t get this thing figured out. My old mechanic got bought out by some young guys that so far I’m pretty unimpressed with so I would really like to be able to figure it out without having to take it anywhere.
09 2500, 204k miles, recently leveled with Eibach coils & shocks, 35x12R18 tires.
A few years ago back when I had no level and smaller tires I had my first instance of death wobble going down the interstate. Same set up happened a second time a year or year and a half later. I don’t remember exactly where in the timeline this fits but at one point I realized my drag link ends were shot so I replaced it, so it is fairly new. Then I put the bigger tires on it about a year and a half ago but still no real issues for about a year, then suddenly after having DW again it became more and more frequent. It became once a month, then once a week, now it’s gotten to where there’s a couple rough roads near my house that I just can’t drive on because it’s guaranteed.
Steering has recently started to feel a little bit weird, simultaneously heavy and resistant but also twitchy at the same time, it’s really weird. When I feel the fateful jiggle, sometimes it’s very subtle at first and then goes full, and sometimes it’s just zero to hold on in a heartbeat.
What I’ve checked/done to try and fix it:
- I’ve tightened up the worm gear in the steering box a couple times recently as the death wall seems to knock it loose, but tightening it up only seems to be a temporary fix. I am aware that there is such a thing as too tight, I am tightening it up just enough to were it gets rid of most of the play in the steering but still allows for smooth travel.
- Normally I run my tires at 33psi, the wobble got to be extremely frequent so I checked and they were at 28. Bumped them back to 33 and it kept happening so now they are at 40, just trying to make them more rigid to prevent wobble.
- A couple weeks ago I had the front end off the ground and I tried to lift the wheels up and down with no play, so wheel bearings and ball joints should be good.
- Five minutes ago I checked the drag link again, tie rod ends are rock solid, and track bar doesn’t seem to move from me yanking on it so I think it’s good.
- I haven’t checked but I didn’t used to have issues and I haven’t touched it so I have no reason to believe that my toe is off for any reason.
- After doing some reading on the website, I see that my caster is not where it should be and I need to add some back in, but again it’s always been like that and it didn’t used to have issues.
Second would be the steering stabilizer, but as I’ve seen others suggest, the stabilizer is just masking an issue somewhere else, if everything is as it should be the stabilizer shouldn’t be that important. If it is shot though, I have no idea how to check that.
I am running out of things to check so I will take any suggestions at this point. It does OK on gravel but no matter where I’m going I have at least 10 miles of payment to get there so as far as I’m concerned I have a $10,000 chunk of scrap metal sitting in the driveway if I can’t get this thing figured out. My old mechanic got bought out by some young guys that so far I’m pretty unimpressed with so I would really like to be able to figure it out without having to take it anywhere.
