Thread: Lessons learned
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Old 05-15-2002, 08:26 PM
KevinF KevinF is offline
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Yeah, tire/wheels are USUALLY the culprit, unfortunately, and the most expensive things to have to change usually.

I have been running 6" of lift and 33" MT/Rs (18psi) on my ZJ for over a year now with NO death wobble EVER. I swapped to stock wheels and stock sized tires for a trip out to L.A. in December and got DW for the first time. All wheels were balanced, but the backspacing changed from 3.75" to whatever stock is...~5.0" or so. I fiddled with the toe-in several times and dropped pressure until it finally would ride without DWing on me.

I've never tried the power-brake method that Dave and Chris mentioned...I'll have to try that. I DO know that trying to accellerate out of it DOES NOT WORK for anything other than dying your shorts.
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