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Offline Justzukin

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Tire Shimmy
« on: October 12, 2008, 02:50:31 PM »
I recently installed an eight inch rocky road spring over lift with stage 1 over the top steering
and added 33x12.5x15 tires and i got a shimmy issue driving around town.  I then added a old man emu steering stabilizer which seam to help a little.  This past weekend I installed power steering from a sidekick but now the shimmy is worse one little bump at 20 miles an hour and you can't keep it on the road.  I was wondering if is just frontend alignment or some thing else.

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1988 Sami 8" SPOA from Rocky Road 33/12.5 Tryus 6.5 to 1 super crawler ARB's both ends

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Offline ack

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Re: Tire Shimmy
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2008, 04:00:04 PM »
8 inches is a bit extreme for a truck that you plan to drive daily.

Check out this page for more info:

http://www.acksfaq.com/sixinchrule.php

Aside from the spring wobble from the lift, you might need a knuckle rebuild to tighten up things on the front axle.

Did you by any chance rotate the axle to point the pinion towards the transfer case in an effort to reduce the u-joint angle or clear the front crossmember?

If so, this will cause seriously weird handling...

http://www.acksfaq.com/caster.php

...and cause driveshaft vibrations

http://www.4xshaft.com/driveline101.html

The above links were found by searching at Ack's FAQ (see link in signature, below).

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Re: Tire Shimmy
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2008, 04:22:46 PM »
Yes I agree! If you have angled your pinion on your diff up to eliminate driveshaft angle you have probably messed up your caster angle. Caster essentially is the angle forward or backward in relation to your upper and lower ball joint position. The more positive caster angle or leaned back the angle is, the straighter it will want to drive. The less caster angle or forward lean, the wheels will lose that ability. And negative caster is disasterous. Think of it like a shopping cart. You might have done this before if not try it. You push the cart normally it seems ok. Now run with the cart, hit a bumb or get going fast enough and watch those front wheels. They will shaking back and forth like mad! That is negative caster! So that might be your problem. Or could be a tire/ balance issue!
89 Sidekick. 33's.  Lincoln Locker,4.24 T Case, 5.13 gears. Warn M8000 winch.
96 Tracker. 39.5's Locked 44's front and rear, 6.5 t case, 4.10 gears.

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Offline bashzuk

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Re: Tire Shimmy
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2008, 05:05:28 PM »
Take a picture of your front end set up so that we can see, might help out.
Just a suggestion.
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It's not a Jeep thing, it's not a Suzuki thing, or a Chevy,Ford thing.
It's a wheeling thing now get out and do it!