finally my XJ to keep for good, innovative

Please post a better picture of your control arms. From the picture you sent, it looks like two control arms cut and welded together to make one longer arm. The stock control arms are only stamped steel. for a street driven vehicle that's fine, but from what I can tell in the picture (and that doesn't tell the whole story), what you've done is weaken the control DRASTICALLY. You're asking for failure even on the street. Everytime you feel that death wobble, you are putting a ton of stress on those welds and a simple overlap, or "Double plating" is not enough. You'd have been better off using the tubing from the trampoline to make control arms.

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This thing should be crushed along with the ASU Jeep. Somebody is going to get hurt in this thing.

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Puttin' on tech hat for now...

Pinion angle has nothing to do with death wobble. Caster can. Granted pinion angle and caster go hand in hand, but that's another story.
-Check your caster. Should be around 6*
-Check for looseness in any item that LOCATES the front axle. Track bar, control arms and/or bushings. Have someone turn the steering wheel back and firth with the engine off and look/feel for looseness.
-Check your toe. Should be approx 1/8" toe in
-Check tire/wheel balance
-Is the axle centered? (i.e. same wheelbase left vs right) With those hacked together control arms, I doubt it

Do this things and you will find the cause of your death wobble
 
ok.... this guy has got to be a troll... if not someone please sterilize him so he cannot reproduce... There is no way someone can be this damn ignorant. I wasn't gonna comment until I seen the control arms in the pic above, you had better be trailering that thing. If not and it causes an accident I hope they sue you for whatever singlewide your living in...
 
OK you asked us to keep opinions to our self, but...You also wanted to know what to do about the death wobble.
I am home, canning some sketti sauce, so right now I have a little time. as pointed out above by snappy, you need an angle finder. The angle coming out of the T-case, and the angle at the pinion, should be the same if you ARE NOT using a CV type drive shaft. If you are using a CV style drive shaft, then the pinion should be pointed at the T case. BUT, the pinion angle is not what causes the death wobble, the caster and camber is. So with that said, the only way to correct that is to have it put on the machine to line it up correctly. That's where the upper control arm will come into play. ON a 4" lift, you can usually get by with a about a holes width difference. I have seen it done by oblonging the hole where it mounts to the unibody.(cheap) but it may come loose and go back to where it was with rough use. I have seen people ADD to the control arm after oblonging it, with 1/4 or 3/16 thick "washers" to gain the length. An easier and not too expensive way would to build a new adjustable control arm using thick wall tube and some heims or johnny style joints. Measure someone else's store bought arms to get the length you need.

BTW I am wondering why you need this to be able to go 42MPH. If I read correctly, it isn't tagged and insured. I have not seen a lot of trails where anyone would be going that fast. So that really shouldn't be an issue.

Also, the putting together of two different sets of control arms may not be something I would come up with, but...as you have it welded, a good(bad) bounce will cause it to peel down. If you all the way around, it would be much stronger.

On your Bumper:
The hooks should be reverse of the way you have them. Why? well if a hook breaks(before how you have the bumper mounted) the hook will fly upwards. Also, mounted in reverse, sure helps a strap loop stay on when it gets slack in it.
 
Curious what you used to weld the control arms with?
What type of welding rod? Interested in doing the same thing to my Xj...
 
Maybe all the ass hole that are hating on your thread will pitch in and help buy some DUCKTAPE and keep this thing on the trail! I hope to see ya out on a trial so I can see first hand how it does.
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This is beyond awesome! Pure Entertainment!

If this dude is a troll....he is the best ever! He seriously has ALL of us scratching our heads asking..REALLY???
 
I don't have nothing to add really but just want to commend you on your efforts. I just threw a build together that I'm just finishing up. Mostly a bunch of junk thrown together but hey it works. I asked for peoples opinions about some of the things I did but I never got advice and opinions like you do. So I mostly had to do the research myself. Most of my research and about all of the best advice came from Pirate 4x4.com. They are some good guys over there.


Just a little interesting fact about welding that galvanized trampoline pipe. Next time your welding it you will notice the thick white smoke coming off of it when you finish welding. Lean down and take a big sniff of it. It smells just like the best pepperoni pizza ever cooked. Sometimes it takes a couple good sniffs of it to get the desired effect.


Good luck w/ your build and pay these guys no attention. Especially that RedNeck guy and Upnover.
 
I don't have nothing to add really but just want to commend you on your efforts. I just threw a build together that I'm just finishing up. Mostly a bunch of junk thrown together but hey it works. I asked for peoples opinions about some of the things I did but I never got advice and opinions like you do. So I mostly had to do the research myself. Most of my research and about all of the best advice came from Pirate 4x4.com. They are some good guys over there.


Just a little interesting fact about welding that galvanized trampoline pipe. Next time your welding it you will notice the thick white smoke coming off of it when you finish welding. Lean down and take a big sniff of it. It smells just like the best pepperoni pizza ever cooked. Sometimes it takes a couple good sniffs of it to get the desired effect.


Good luck w/ your build and pay these guys no attention. Especially that RedNeck guy and Upnover.

STFU!
You do not know how amazing 88jeepster is!
His fab skills far surpass anything i have ever seen.
Evolution in progress right here..............
 
yep this thread is 29 minutes of my life I will never get back...................
 
and I was once ashamed of my pipe cage on my former Jeep.
I still use my pipe over pipe tie rod though. It cracked once, but never failed.
 
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