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SteveW:
I'm back again for some more information and as usual any help would be very much appreciated.

When I bought my Jimny I noticed there was a slight vibration/wobble sometimes between about 30 and 60 mph but it wasn't to bad and I had no problem living with it so it sort of went to the back of my mind.

I have now had a set of castor correction front radius arms fitted to sort out the fact that its lifted and get the axle back to the right angle.

Driving it home from the garage last night after the arms were fitted the wobble came back and it did so with avengence! Its probably worse at about 35mph now. I'm pretty sure I've read about this being a common problem with Jimnys so if anyones had the problem or knows the source I would appreciate knowing how to stop it. I'm going to get the wheels tracked and balanced in the hope that this will help but are there any other things I should check?

Steve.

glaggs:
My suggestion would be - first check everything has been properly tightened up. Then the symtom of wheel wobble around 35-40mph on a Jimny usualy means king pin bearings. Mines doing it at the moment. Checked the king pin bearings and they were seized with mud n rust. Done a temp clean up while I can afford some new ones - which improved the ride slightly - but not totally. I think the bearings are about £25+vat each from Suzuki. I'm going to try a bearing factors first.

SteveW:
Cheers glaggs,

I'll check on that, I'm going to try the tracking and balancing first though just incase thats not helping things.

Steve.

glaggs:
OK Steve. Easiest way to check King pins is get both front wheels off the ground, diconnect the stearing arm and the drag link and then turn each wheel from lock to lock by hand. If the feel 'notchy' or offer too much resistance then its king pins. Also if you hold the wheel at the top and bottom and get movement similar to faulty bearing but don't get any play when you repeat the test while holding the wheel at each side it also points to king pins. Its hard to do the first test with the links still attached.

Do you have a steering damper fitted? 'cos if youve done a caster correction mod you shouldn't need it.

Other things to check - track rod end joints and wheel bearings. Also break discs

SteveW:
Cheers, I'm gonna try to get time this weekend to have a look at those things.

Steve.

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