Death wobble: what actually fixed it for you?

Death wobble is a symptom, not a fault — a violent, self-sustaining shake of the steering on a solid front axle, usually set off by a bump at speed. The cause is almost always a worn or loose front-end component, or geometry left uncorrected after a lift. A steering stabilizer hides it rather than fixing it, which is why it keeps coming back.

We wrote up the mechanism and what a shop that can actually diagnose it does first: Death Wobble: What It Is and Who Can Actually Fix It.

What we want here is the other half — what it turned out to be on your rig.

  • What was worn or loose when you found it
  • What you replaced first that did not fix it
  • Whether an alignment or a track bar correction was part of the answer

Include the vehicle and the lift. Somebody with the same setup will find this thread.