Hi,
I have been reading posts on here for a while as i have been building an expedition 110 and they have always helped massively. i have read all relevant posts on this problem and all to no avail.
Essentially, the problem is a violent wobble "death wobble" that builds first through the steering and then shaking the whole body of the car almost off the road.
It happens at completely random intervals, with no consistency, sometimes after cornering doing 25, sometimes at 65 on the motorway having been fine for 100 miles.
I am now in spain, my local landy specialist told me it was the steering damper, which was changed before i left, and seemd to do the trick, for about 700 miles, until the problem returned in the middle of france. got out to a friends in spain, had the entire steering and suspension checked; no problems found. so decided it must just be the huge wheels i was running ruining different components.
so i got a decent second hand set of wheels and tyres, back to regular sizes, and to be safe as the vehicle is well loaded, ordered some parts and double dampered the front and rear. i really thought id cracked it. another 700 miles through the pyrenees without a hitch, then all of a sudden it came back. now worse than ever, cant even drive for 5 mins without there being a problem.
i could systematically change everything, but i have limited time and resources out here. the obvious things all seem fine, panhard rod, track rod ends, bushes, swivels etc.
the problem is that everythign i seem to change acts only as a temporary fix, and every time only gets me a few hundred miles further from home and harder to fix!
any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
I have been reading posts on here for a while as i have been building an expedition 110 and they have always helped massively. i have read all relevant posts on this problem and all to no avail.
Essentially, the problem is a violent wobble "death wobble" that builds first through the steering and then shaking the whole body of the car almost off the road.
It happens at completely random intervals, with no consistency, sometimes after cornering doing 25, sometimes at 65 on the motorway having been fine for 100 miles.
I am now in spain, my local landy specialist told me it was the steering damper, which was changed before i left, and seemd to do the trick, for about 700 miles, until the problem returned in the middle of france. got out to a friends in spain, had the entire steering and suspension checked; no problems found. so decided it must just be the huge wheels i was running ruining different components.
so i got a decent second hand set of wheels and tyres, back to regular sizes, and to be safe as the vehicle is well loaded, ordered some parts and double dampered the front and rear. i really thought id cracked it. another 700 miles through the pyrenees without a hitch, then all of a sudden it came back. now worse than ever, cant even drive for 5 mins without there being a problem.
i could systematically change everything, but i have limited time and resources out here. the obvious things all seem fine, panhard rod, track rod ends, bushes, swivels etc.
the problem is that everythign i seem to change acts only as a temporary fix, and every time only gets me a few hundred miles further from home and harder to fix!
any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers