Now THIS video was ALOT better!!I have a 03 2500 Chevy and it shakes a lot

That happened to me back when I first started driving, as I was speeding, 85 in a 55...on a 2 lane bridge. Rear passenger wheel made contact with the bottom reach of the wall and that was it. I thought I was going over the edge, I don't think my arms have ever moved faster spinning that wheel to just adjust the angle of impact, and boom. Upside down. But hey, no other cars involved and I was the only one that got hurt, and that was from falling into the busted windshield unbuckling, not from impact. A fucking miracle win as far as wrecks can go. I count my blessings, trust me. Needless to say, Ive been hyper sensitive to the state of my suspension ever since. Thanks for the vid!

I usually hate mechanic videos (rather than using the manual) but you guys did a fantastic job on this one.

My ‘02 Yukon xl gets the wobble of death around 65-70 I got an alignment and balance which helped it but it recently started up again. Watching this video helped me understand more of what’s happening. Thanks guys.

Thanks love the 3500 Powerful .

Had it happen to my 2015 Jeep Wrangler. It's definitely scary and this video explains alot. Still an expensive repair, for all the parts that has to be replaced.

Thank you!

I explain to my local mechanic an he don't know what the problem was now I know thank you

Enjoyed video!

Very helpful thank you

Thanks guys awesome info man doing my outer and lower and pitman on my driver's side today appreciate it

Well done.

I drove a power steering induced shimmy on a ‘67 travelall. It was not uncommon for this on several manufacturers of cars in the ‘60’s. Happened both on the an arm suspension and the straight axle with leaf springs (same power steering). Have fun

lol happened on my way home from dump today LOL had it happen years ago hauling wood for my gpa to lol but this truck is doing it on smooth roads

Reduce speed on the highway. I never go over 60 ph. Mine has done it since brand new. It's an engineering issue. I've had 4 new jeeps and 2 F-250s if you have worn out parts that will only bring it on more often. Anything with a straight axle on the front will do it. I put bigger shocks on mine. It helps. I think what's happening is at speed and you hit a small bump in the road the front tires are trying to stay in contact with the rd and the suspension gets confused for just a second trying stay in contact with the road. Then it will start to wobble. At speed the air is coming up under the front end and raising the front end reducing tire contact with the rd and the wobble will start. In some cases an inexperienced driver will panic. I'm certain people have been killed because of this. It's very scary when it happens. It can throw you right into another lane in a second without warning. But the best solution is to not worry what other drivers are doing. Reduce your speed. My safe speed is 55 to 60 period. Over that your just asking for trouble. Be safe.

Steering box was the issue for me. Still a little shake but will replace pittman and idler arms next pay check

This happened with my 2000 Sierra. Scary sh%t!

If you change these parts yourself, don’t forget the front end alignment right away or you may still think there’s problems.

I need help ): I have so many new parts in the front end on my 2006 Yukon Denali AWD. I’ve taken it to a few shops and they can’t figure out what it is. One person suggested it could be the awd system. The dealership said they checked everything, steering column, shaft , gear box and nothing had play in my front end. Idk what to do I can’t figure out what it is, it’s in oem 22 inch rims

Just bought a 96 Silverado, thought it was a tire causing the extrem Jerks and shakes, its extremely bad, not because of rotors or brakes. As far as driving, steering has some play. And I hear a clank when shifting from reverse to park. Not extremely loud. But noticeable. Your the closest iv come to an answer. thanks bunches

I had a Ranger that started doing the death wobble after hitting about a 2 inch drop due to road work. I thought my front tires were coming off. Had new tires put on just a few days before and thought they didn't tighten the lug nuts. After that first time it would start doing the death wobble every time I hit a bump. A friend told me to try changing the serpentine belt and I thought, no way that's the problem but figured wth probably needs changing anyway and amazingly to me it DID fix the problem. Since then I've heard of several different issues that were caused by bad serp belts that you would never think it would be causing the problem unless you already knew it could be the problem.

Good job, thanks for the tutorial. Can I ask, What's the connection between a faulty tierod and a ragging or filing tyre?

nice video,,,,,,,,,good presentation...........not a lot of useless JIBBER JABBER.........THANKS.......

After having my tires balanced and rebalanced, the front end aligned by 3 different shops along with the chevy dealer replacing the outer tie rods, pitman arm and idler and I added a front stabilizer shock I finally got to the problem. I replaced the brake calipers, pads, and rotors. No more pulling to the right and no wobble what so ever. FYI PS I also revamped the stupid vibration isolator on the center link.

is that a zerk on the center link?

My Nissan Pathfinder is starting to do this only when braking down hill at 60mph. Any thoughts? Keep up the great content.

Swing set system

I liked your video. So I guess it's probably the same thing for a 2011 Chevy Silverado 2500HD 4x4. If not please let me know. Thanks!

My death wobble started on a bridge at 65mph on a Dodge Ram 3500

Mine only does this on occasion & only for a a few seconds, and sometimes its very mild. Rarely it's bad. But it seems to start happening after maybe 10 to 15 mins of driving, or when going down or uphill.

I have had this issue in a number of service vehicles I drove replaced many of these parts on them to all of these parts on my personal chevy express service van which at that point I gave up and found new tires and tire rotation fixes it temporarily haha (not safe) still. Anyway few days ago I rotated the tires still having all fairly new everything in this video on the vehicle still, when rotating due to the shake coming back I decided to grease up my ball joints upper and lower since they looked about due, upon getting back to the road and hitting 40mph the shake started and worse then it's ever been which has drawn me to the conclusion of the upper and lower ball joints especially after going back and putting tires back to same sides as they were prior to rotating where it barely had a shake. Sounds extremely strange to me that something controlling the chamber would be the cause but it's the only part besides the control arm that hasn't been replaced and I'm gonna try just that this evening hopefully, the upper and lower ball joints. Great video definitely not disagreeing because this video does cover the issues most cases, but ive had a few with the infamous death wobble where these components didn't work except for the first 15 to 20 miles after replacing then right back to shaking your tail feather lmao. Have you all ever had ball joints be the cause is what this paragraph was originally getting at?

Great video, my 02 Duramax doesn’t shake on driving. I can drive it perfectly. But when I hit the brakes this is what it does. Except my steering wheel does NOT shake at all. But everything else feels like it wants to just fall off. Any help?

How much does just what you replaced cost

So a truck with a swing set is tested with the steering wheel shake test? If I have no play anywhere after the shake test it’s fine? I have a 1999 sierra 4x4. I can move the wheel quite easily side to side making the pitman arm ball joint flex and move but there’s no clank or separation and my truck runs fine. Is it probably still okay?

I have a 08 chevy 3500HD DRW same as video. im getting a small shake and vibration at about 80mph. my steering box is questionably the problem because I can turn the wheel or twist the steering shaft but its not turning the pitman arm. Another problem im having is im able to move/jiggle the steering shaft and tracing the movement to behind the steering wheel and before the firewall? I've tried looking for a steering shaft bearing that I seen people replace in the 99-06 models, but can't find any replacement parts associated with that. Any suggestions??

Damn my work van is doing this when i try to stop

I have a chevy 2500 express van 2005. It has the shakes as you described. What does it cost to have this fix if all part are needed to be replace? I am trying to decide if it is worth repairing or retiring the van. Need ball park cost.

So yall just replaced the whole damn system 😂. got it.

Thanks happen to me today 1 ton express van every time I go onto the on ramp it shakes like that but if I slow down and gas it goes away. Particularly right hand long shaper turns or on ramps. Happened today bad but worse then ever

*Had 2005 F250 was worst! Back to Chevy never experienced this thank god*

I have a Jeep, I have never had this happen, but have been warned.

Can a bad tie rod or anything related to the suspension or steering cause my steering wheel to vibrate/shake when i brake?

I have some problem in my truck

That vehicle was showing about 10% of Death Wobble. When the steering wheel is making violent 180°+ swings and the front fenders are jumping about 12 inches with the tires leaving the ground, you're experiencing actual death wobble. Many times caused by more worn/damaged parts than a couple tie rod ends, the most violent are typically caused by someone making stupid, stupid alterations and/or having mangled the front end by way of their moronic driving skills. That's why it almost always happens exclusively on Chevies and Jeeps.

At first I only had some steering wheel play, but now after replacing parts my truck bucks like a bull. Can't even get to the road, it bounces like a lowrider, and the only way to stop it is by braking completely. Many new parts, WHY?

Curious now what this all cost the 3500 customer

Yes the death wobble is right

Did all that but I figured it out 15 for 15 in duck and it cost nothing and took me 5 min

Even Independent Front Suspensions have the wobble of doom.

Does this death wobble only happens when hitting a bump or something I have a wobble that goes away after parked over night and comes back later could be months or weeks but Damb it comes back

I've got a 1988 GMC k 1500 and have to put an idler arm on there every time I get it inspected The idler arms never hold up for maybe 6 months no matter what brand or how expensive

so my 2013 gmc sierra 2500hd only shake sometimes when you put the brakes on so would this be like the same thing as this?

My Yukon shakes when i break. Any thoughts on that? Thank you!!

would this be the same parts to check if shakes after when at 65 mph shakes and stops if you go below 65 and will stop if going above 70 mph

Wow, worn parts leading to death wobble, who would have thought, apparently these guys have never had a Ram or Ford death wobble? 😂😂 Dont see it much in our mixed fleet on Chevys, but the Fords and Ram trucks have constant deathwobble with minimal parts wear.

My Chevy Tahoe 2015 shakes but not as violently or strong and only when I make it up to 80 mph. What could it be?

I am having the EXACT same thing happen to my 05 Silverado 1500. However it only happens intermittently, like maybe after 10 mins of driving & just happens whenever it feels like it. Sometimes its a light shake others its violent like in this video. Any tips?

I have a 2004 Chevy express and is doing the death wobble arround the 50MPH, as soon as I start braking it stops happening, the van does have after market wheels, the lugs seem to be kind of loose. (Holes a bit to big on wheels) Can someone help please? I replaced steering gear box and pitman arm and didn’t work.

How do steering box go bad? Does it have anything to do with driver errors

Oops I tried all that then I figured it out. Took me 5 min and Cost nothing and I've done 15 Silverado 00 and I've fixed 15 of them

Yep death wobble

Where is your location?

Never heard of death wobble on a GM vehicle. Always hear about the Ford death wobble.

See my problem is it's not the steering wheel. My whole dashboard bounces up and down at 45 mph

I've checked every part three times replaced steering box pitman arm alignment this test drove at 60 going over overpass still wobbles ?????

On my 2009 Yukon 2500 XL with a 4" lift I replaced the tires first because of the wobble. Then I replaced all the shocks. Then had the tie rod ends changed. Upper and lower a-arms changed then the pitman and idler arms. I adjusted the torsion bars and had the alignment redone. Tires balancing done many many times. It still wobbles excessively at 65-75. Even hitting bumps in the road cause shaking, but you don't really see it in the steering wheel. You feel it in the floor and the seats. I am stumped, what else could it be? Also replaced the bump stops and sway bar link bushings. What is left besides a gas can and a match? Help

This is the 3th time I took my Chev 2013 to dealership- it shaking so bad each time but when they drive the car is not shaking - I don’t know what to do 😢

2004, 2500 / 4 wheel drive , Mine is in the rear end and started after using the 4 wheel drive 4 LOW in mud, it bounces like a basketball at 45 mph now in rear of the truck using the 2 wheel drive on first drive after the mud and going back to 2 wheel drive ? There is no mud on the tires just the mud stain !

How many times did you hear "death wobble or Chevy shake" ?

My car does this “98 Nissan 240sx” at exactly 60 mph. If I slow down to 55 it’s gone. I mean the car shakes violently like in the video

I have got 3 different opinions on my chevy blazer, and I don't know what to do, when you drive my truck reach 40mph you notice the truck will pull to the right than quickly go left and keep going left like you on a block of ice so I throw on the breaks to stop and it turn more left whenever you hit the breaks, I don't know what to do, I'm a woman and I can't find no mechanic that can be truly honest with me to tell me what's the serious problem going on with my chevy blazer, can someone please I beg to help me!

Happens on my GMC Envoy. I just don't bother with it. The death wobble don't bother me.

Our shake only happens when going 50+ going down hill and we're trying to break and it shakes pretty hard. But damn not that hard like on your video. But otherwise on the flats when breaking it never shakes. Only when going downhill

The concern is death wobble is happening to new Ford trucks. Not old worn down vehicles that need new bushings

Chevy shudder is from the transmissions.

Gear box is a non Likely issue. Same with the front steering stabilizer. Tie rods should be replaced. Tires rebalamced. And alignment

What about unbalanced wheels?

1:04 where your whole vehicle shake uncontrollably and make you sheet ur pants.. 🤔 Hey I need this. I hav constipation

Mine wobbled bad then I smelled burned tranny fluid

steering stabilizer causing death wobble on a jeep is false. its not a fix either

the play in the joints... well that is wrong. Take a big pair of water pump plyers and to push down on the ball joint, if it moves up and down it is bad. Not the way he explained it.. ball joints are suppose to move, just like your knees and elbows. And he forgot the most crucial part. the mounted arm on the passenger side of the frame. That and the pitman arm will cause the shake...and a blown out shock.

Dodge death wobble. Jeep death wobble. Chevy shake. Maybe it's time the auto manufacturers go back to putting grease zerks on the steering and suspension joints so we can maintain our vehicles properly. But no, the manufacturers can save $10 per vehicle without the zerks.

The death wobble is not the same as a vehicle with worn parts or bad breaks. Its a totally different issue. All 5 of my brand new 4 wheel drive trucks did it from day 1. The only solution is to reduce speed. Period. By slowing down your keeping the front tires in better contact with the rd. If you get the wobble at 60 or above dont drive 60. Its a design issue with vehicles with a straight axle. Its very scary when it happens. Slow down. People are getting killed because of this. And they know it. In a second you can lose total control. Slow down.

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This is not chevy shake. This is a bad front end.