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nikko
15th April 2014, 10:09 AM
G'day all,
A year or so since last post - been busy Patrolling...

My vehicle has travelled 395,000 klm and is stock standard. All steering and suspension components original, apart from springs, shocks and steering damper.
80% of travel is black top or dirt roads - no beach.

Just had a set of Maxxis 751's fitted - good tyres and balanced well. However, vehicle has a shimmy which has been impossible to balance out, and just recently there have been two episodes of violent steering wheel shake, induced by braking whilst travelling down a steepish blacktop. Is this shake what I have read in the forums as "death shake"?

Where do I start to fix this?

Nikko

threedogs
15th April 2014, 02:32 PM
Jack it up and grab top and bottom of tyre and see if any play.
wheel bearings a little loose will create a shake.

the evil twin
15th April 2014, 02:34 PM
If it has the original bushes in it with 400,000 K's I'm tipping a few bucks spent replacing them would be a good idea

threedogs
15th April 2014, 03:15 PM
I think Mods can delete this thread as he [nikko] started a duplicate