Patrol Death/Steering Wobble – Trouble Shooting & Fix

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Re: Patrol Death/Steering Wobble – Trouble Shooting & Fix

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Hi Graham
Yes, that is the plan. I’ve only had thePatrol for a week now, so still feeling it out a bit. I’ve noticed a wobble under acceleration between about 90-110km/h, but not too bad. But yesterday when approaching the offramp and breaking from about 120 km/h down to 80 km/h it really was a lot worse. It definitely needs to be resolved. I’ll have the wobble situation looked at first and then get the tyres. Thx for the input!
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Re: Patrol Death/Steering Wobble – Trouble Shooting & Fix

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On the off ramp - were you braking or just rolling?
If you were braking, it could be your disks. I had that issue as well and had to replace the brakes.
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Re: Patrol Death/Steering Wobble – Trouble Shooting & Fix

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Remo, nissan had the back disks sceemed about a year ago,
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Re: Patrol Death/Steering Wobble – Trouble Shooting & Fix

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Hi Remo,
The front bearing tension is a good place to start - I found both of mine were quite loose. Tightening solved some of the problem. Peter Connan makes a tool for this. The next thing that usually needs seeing to is the Panhard Rod bushes.
A bit of a fiddle, but doable if you have a decent vice. The third thing to look at is the Shims on the kingpin bearings. Luckily the panhard bush replacement sorted mine out...
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Re: Patrol Death/Steering Wobble – Trouble Shooting & Fix

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Hi Roelf, thanks for the info. The braking doesn’t feel very smoothe, I think the disks need to be checked again, it feels like they might be a bit warped.
Bearings and bushes will be checked as well.
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Re: Patrol Death/Steering Wobble – Trouble Shooting & Fix

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I am guessing if the brakes don't feel smooth combined with the wobble you described earlier, the culprit would be front discs this time. But it could easily be a combination of factors.

Again, if you feel like coming around here, I can check but not fix.
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I have found the problem on a couple of patrols by parking the car om a flat hard surface lie under the car and get someone to shake the steering hard . Where there is a tik tik sound there is a problem . When wheel is off the ground and there is movement from 12 to 6 a clock the bearing is loose . When it moves from 3 to 9 only its drag link tie rod problems . I have supplied lots of terrain taimer tie rods and found that they last the best if you need to replace anything
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Re: Patrol Death/Steering Wobble – Trouble Shooting & Fix

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Hey Guys,

I have the dreaded death wobble and I'm in desparate straits to fix it. I have just put in caster correction bushes, and don't want them driven to pieces before replacing the other front suspension bushes. I gather that it needs new bushes on the tie-rod, panhard-rod and draglink. Will terrain tamer be able to help with this? I don't have the cash to order a new tie-rod, panhard-rod and draglink from Nissan brand new. Surely some bushes must be available aftermarket somewhere? Please help me if you can...

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