How to stop front end death wobble

[Mike@MPD]

This only happens with the drag radials on, it does it randomly on the highway when I hit the slightest bump and it has done it at the end of the 1/4. Its a pain in the ass and I would like to be able to run it with out the fear of dying. The radials were balanced 2 days ago

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[forcefed6.4ford]

Steering dampers.

 

[Corb@CorbinShipping]

Adjustable track bars are what I have been hearing. Havent tried them yet though. Once you play with the height of a truck like ours, the track bars have our front end and rear end following different paths, and that makes for a dangerous ride at the speeds that we run our trucks. Only gets worse with speed.

 

[Zmann]

ya people say dampeners are a baindaid but it's worked on mine for 60k

I have an 8 inch lift and just a drop trac bar bracket from a 6 inch lift

 

[09stroker]

My brothers truck was bad and an adjustable track bar fixed it. It recently came back because of worn out track bar bushings and ball joints. So if the geometry is correct I would check any wear items.

 

[08BIGRIG]

I have the same issue. I am getting a new dampner tommarow to try out. Mine scares the hell out of me when it happens. I have to get on the breaks pretty hard for it to stop. Should hopefully have it done tommarow.

 

[Mike@MPD]

Checked all the bushings and they look fine. The truck is stock height. On whitey we had stiffer shocks and the truck never hopped

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[powerstrokin15]

mine does it too.


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[Mike@MPD]

And we had a Rancho steering stabilizer too

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[Mike@MPD]

Dick lol

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[Powerstroked162]

Dick lol

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Lol.


Have you thought about an adjustable track bar and a set of ALA's?

 

[Matt]

The answer is obvious...put the set up in Whitey

 

[HOOV3R]

I had issues with mine, would almost throw you off the road at highway speeds. Put dual steering stabilizers on 25k ago and it hasn't done it since.

 

[Erikclaw]

The brazier? LOL Dampners should help, but when it occurs most of the time there is a loose or worn joint. Have you tried getting it up in the air and physically moving the joint ends to see if there is some play in them? That is the best to rule it out. Or have someone move the wheel while you inspect all the joints in the system.

 

[HOOV3R]

The brazier? LOL Dampners should help, but when it occurs most of the time there is a loose or worn joint. Have you tried getting it up in the air and physically moving the joint ends to see if there is some play in them? That is the best to rule it out. Or have someone move the wheel while you inspect all the joints in the system.

Actually, now that I think about it, I put new ball joints on at the same time I did stabilizers.

 

[early99powerstroke]

I'm gonna agree with the track bar being the prob. It's the terrible design of a ball joint on the track bar. I'd upgrade to the ready-lift track bar.

 

[BeauxPete]

I have an adjustable track bar as well as the drop bracket on my 8" lifted truck. Also have dual steering stabilizers and have not seen a wooble one for 182K miles now..

 

[6.4psd916]

There is one bump that causes mine to shimmy a bit. I have dual stabilizers, and am lowered. Mine was originally caused by bad bushings.

 

[Frank_C]

Does anyone know of an aftermarket track bar that can be used on lowered trucks?

 

[SLOSIXOH]

Depending on the mileage I have found the 05 and up axles have better ball joint life. When I worked at a dealership I used to increase the caster on both sides by one degree. That used to fix them. Then Ford came out with a different geometry for the dampener shock and that fixed them without the alignment. Definitely check the wear on the track bar like everyone is saying. Easiest way I found is have someone sit in the truck and turn the steering wheel back and forth about a quarter turn each way while the engine is running and with their foot on the brake. Look for any up and down movement on the track bar ball joint. Hope this helps.