Yeah that’s right! Gotta replace all those parts in the front. I’d also add a steering stabilizer now that you’ve replaced everything and it will help overall as well as help the parts last longer that you’ve replaced so far. I suggest the kit from BDS. I’ve got a full BDS 8” suspension lift, with the track bars and steering stabilizer, 38x15.5r20 Toyo open country MT tires on my 2015 F2FIDDY 6.7 PowerStroke with 58k miles and never had any death wobble 🤞 I never will. This is only a pain when people don’t properly research death wobble and start replacing parts that aren’t the cause or don’t add to the problem overall. Great videos! God bless~
Yes they are! I had to shorten the tips of my snap ring pliers and re-harden them so they wouldn’t bend! That’s part of why it took two days to finish the first side.
Hello brother and thank you for posting this segment on the "death wobble", something I have been battling since the warranty on my 2012 6.7 SD ran out. But only after FORD completely rebuilt my front end, they said. It was only after replacing a worn set of tires that it went away until last month, when it reared its ugly head. And so, back to the drawing board and researching to see if in the past six years anything has developed out here in RU-vid world. And you have probably seen or heard as many proposed fixes in the process. That said, I have been given advise from a number of "suspension and front experts" who have recommended from completely rebuilding the front end again, to installing a lift kit and adding dual steering dampers (Rancho or FOX), and lastly to just replace my tires now at 5/32". But no matter what I do, it is going to cost a small fraction of what a new truck would cost! The question is what path I take, (almost Biblical), and what proposed fix will do the trick. Barn Tech brother, help!? Thank you ET3303 aka Papa Ed
There is a good chance it is your upper and lower ball joints, like mine. If they are worn badly enough anything can trigger death wobble (hitting a bump, braking, etc). I put the axle on jackstands and pry under each wheel with a bar. If it wiggles at all when you pry it must be replaced.
Something that caused a wouble on my truck is the pins on on brake caliper were rusty since werent sealed. Therefore, breakpads would wear out uneven or one pin would get stuck and run hot from friction, warping the rotors.
10/4 on the No More Sacrifice. BIG 10/4 on the REALLY scary! Fine job and I never really minded ball joints/kingpin bushings being bad in a car or pickup but it's a different story with something that has a bulldog on the hood and a big bed or trailer behind and you being used to a rig with a tight front end and lay the other one in a curve and loose your mind for a second as you fight the wheel from understeer to oversteer and back again, usually several times in that same curve until you get slowed down. THEN you slow down in general. NOT fun but it happens when you push a rig as I always did. Broke a front wheel stud every two weeks or so on the right wheel. Slowed down in one curve and never broke another one. I like black smoke and a feeling of having done something. Hope yall are well. The crud has come and gone like it did to seemingly everybody on the 25th but all is as well as it can be with all the unwanted help we're getting. Glad you're out wrenching. I'm in house arrest for a while but nothing new about that. All that started in 70 at Bragg. Happy winter and God Bless Yall!
I ignored the death wobble as long as I could but it got to the point my truck was unsafe to drive. I was coming down a hill recently and it started the wobble so bad I was barely able to keep it out of oncoming traffic. I decided to fix it before I drove it again.
@lewie I am feeling incredibly blessed! It has been raining for three days and the temperature is right around freezing, but I am warm, dry, and healthy. Truth be told, I enjoy working on broke stuff and I wouldn’t trade this for anything!
@@barntech2291 Wouldn't swap ANYTHING for being at home! I hammered myself for over 50 years and it finally came to a halt! I work on my stuff outside off the tailgate of my S-10 when it's sunny and nice. My shed is enclosed but just a shed, mainly for storage and hiding stuff. The rest of the time I'm inside enjoying paying the light bill for the heat pump humming or the fire burning when the power is off. Health comes and goes but my Sweetie takes care of it and me and deals with whoever to get whatever. And we ARE blessed a LOT more than we know. We just see the surface but a LOT goes on below. So Happy Fixing and BLESSINGS 2 yall!
