My friend just replaced his stock steering stabilizer on his truck with a dual steering stabilizer. We were driving down the road and hit a bump and the front end went crazy. Later that night we were on coming back the same stretch of road and hit the same bump, same thing again, we slowed down to probably 20-30 mph and it quit. He never had this problem with the stock stabilizer. The truck is a 99 5 spd 4x4, extended cab, long bed, with a 3 inch lift, 35 inch bfg mud terrains, and 94000 miles. Cannot figure this one out. Just wondering if anyone had any answers or similar problems AFTER they put a new stabilizer on but never with the old one. Thanks.

 

Sounds like you have the dreaded death wobble. Can be caused by several different things or a combination of them. Do a search for death wobble and get ready to read for days.

Check track bar and alignment, I think the caster? Somebody else will probably chime in too.

 

Also, when I had the death wobble it still appeared even after new steering stabilizer, DSS, and front shocks. Finally a Luke's Link and correct alignment cured it (fingers crossed)...

 

I hope when he put the lift in he put new lower control arms in. When you lift the frontend of these trucks, they lose a lot of their caster. You want about 3 to 3.5 degrees caster and you will never have death wobble again. A tight track bar will mask the problem, but in reality it isn't the "real" problem. Have the alignment checked, and try to get the caster corrected. There is a cam bolt on the control arms that adjust it, hopefully there's enough in there. Your steering stabilizer was probably just band-aiding the problem.

 

I do not know if you are familiar with the phrase, pissing in the wind? But that is all you are doing when add a tube style steering stabilizer to the crossover tie rod on a Dodge 4X4. Go to this site: http://www.solidsteel.ca/ and you will find the fixes.

The only steering stabilizer that really works is sold by them, and you also need their track bar retro kit if the truck has more than 30,000 miles on it.

 

Thanks for all your suggestions and responses. I will relay the info to my friend and we will see what he decides to do.