When did 'shimmy' get changed to 'death wobble'?
When my '05 TJ would do it it was no mere "shimmy". The son of a bitch would bounce from front tire to front tire so violently that it would have flung my ass out the door and onto the pavement if I hadn't been belted in. That's no lie and no exaggeration. It's a positive feedback in the factory inverted-Y steering geometry which usually only occurs when one of the rod ends or control arm ends is not sufficiently tight. I don't mean "not up to factory specs." What was required with that jeep was far far far beyond factory specs but it did resolve the issue. Sometimes a front steering stabilizer will fix it but most often not. Funny thing was my '98 which had much larger tires never did any death wobble and didn't even have a front steering stabilizer.
Tom
