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Death wobble after leveling

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Old Aug 20, 2007 | 11:39 PM
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Question Death wobble after leveling

I could read for an hour and prob find my answer but heck I'm going to ask anyway. My friend just called me and was telling me he has "death wobble". He just put a leveling kit on yesterday and the first time down the freeway doing about 70 the truck went nuts. It was the first time he had ever felt that and needless to say he had to check himself after that!!
He went right down and got a new steering stab and had the allignment checked and it was fine. The truck is an 05 with about 60k miles. Everything was fine until the leveling kit. Give me some ideas to tell him to check. Thanks a bunch.
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Old Aug 20, 2007 | 11:50 PM
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when was the alignment done? they checked it, but did he have it adjusted after the lift install? usually just too much toe "in" is what happens and that will cause dw. steering stabilizers are not going to help. they are not designed to cure problems, but are there for the minor bumps in the roadway surface to keep the veh tracking well. one should be able to drive their truck without a stabilizer and not have any ill effects except when hitting small deviations in the road, which is what it was designed for. tell him to have it checked again and adjusted out a bit.
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Old Aug 21, 2007 | 05:54 PM
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I will have to find out if they adjusted anything or not.
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Old Aug 21, 2007 | 07:11 PM
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caster needs to be as close to max as possible somethine like 5*. look at track bar bushings for play and check bolts and make sure there tight
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