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Old 10-27-2013 | 09:13 PM
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my bad, i've never seen a street car that didn't have some sort of a bushed pin for mounting. the only set of solidly mounted calipers i've ever seen are the willwoods on my rail buggy.
As far as I know, the only Brembo brakes that have bushings are their motorcycle brakes.
Old 10-27-2013 | 10:53 PM
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Death wobble is common on solid axel front suspesion vehicles with worn parts. I've have never heard of it on an independant front suspension. Maybe wore front wheel bearings or tie rods?
Old 10-28-2013 | 12:09 AM
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Originally Posted by FuzzyLog1c
Please don't tell people to hit their brake calipers with a dead blow hammer.
great way to bleed a stubborn dual bleeder caliper or brand new dry calipers.
Old 10-28-2013 | 10:22 AM
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The 4wd dodge ram of the mid 90's was notorious for death wobble. Seems like the forum guys are keeping it at bay by changing dampening and spring rates which appear to, at times, work together to put everything into some sort of "harmonic resonance". This is obviously aggravated by worn parts but it has been an issue in this vehicle since it was first produced.

We saw a lot of this in the rear suspensions of early fwd cars produced in Detroit but instead of getting death wobble, you got tires with the most bazaar wear patterns you've ever seen. You could go down the road beside on of these cars and just watch it beat the living **** out of the rear tires when it got to that one "sweet spot" that caused all the problems. You'll see it every once in a while on cars/trucks today that the shocks/struts are totally blown on.

The manufacturers told us that it was the design of the tire tread creating a certain harmonic frequency traveling down the road that worked in concert with the spring/dampening rates and the alignment settings to set the car off. They took action by replacing untold sets of tires with one of a different tread pattern and the problem simply went away......
Old 10-28-2013 | 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by 69stangscj
Death wobble is common on solid axel front suspesion vehicles with worn parts. I've have never heard of it on an independant front suspension. Maybe wore front wheel bearings or tie rods?
It was more of a descriptor, like the condition. It's just bad shocks and mounts I am sure.
Old 10-31-2013 | 05:03 PM
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Ok, so now I'm out of ideas. This is really pissing me off. I just replaced the hub and I still have the same sound. Loud popping sound. So I think its one of the many ball joints on that corner.
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I am having the same problem i think. Sounds like the wheel is going to fall off when going over bumps. I changed the end links, swaybar bushings. I checked to see all was tight. I was thinking it was the hub but saw here that didn't fix the sound. I had the front shocks changed today and still same sound. I can push on the car in a rocking motion and i can hear something loose i think. Any ideas? im going to take the wheel off and check again.




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