Wheel wobble...........!!!

phippj1 wrote: Thats great to hear jimbob, Im going to have a look at doing mine then as it will cost nothing.

Having never payed much attention to the steering box it is obvious what screw is it that you tighten?[/quote

My truck has neve drove better till I adjusted the steering box screw I hope it works for you

Hi
I'm a new member and recent Jimny owner .
I found this great site by googling Jimny and petrol light! I didn't realise that there was no petrol light on a Jimny dashboard and ran out of fuel on Xmas eve trying to find a garage that was open!?!?
My Jimny suffers with the "wobble" occaisonally, mostly on the flat, at approx 45mph and most often when fuel tank is more than half full. The wobble goes when I reach 50 or go back down to 40mph.
Could you kindly advise me what parts of the car should be looked at or adjusted. I'm a very untechnical female but fortunately, or maybe not, my teenage son is a mechanic so what parts should I tell him to look at? Is it dangerous if the wobble isn't sorted.
Thanking you very much in advance for any help or advice

JimnyJu wrote: Hi
I'm a new member and recent Jimny owner .
... I didn't realise that there was no petrol light on a Jimny dashboard and ran out of fuel on Xmas eve trying to find a garage that was open!?!? ...

Not knowing your year model but I thought all Jimny's had a gauge & a low level warning light, well mine has

Someone will help with you wobble I'm sure ....

ps welcome the the forum .

JimnyJu wrote: ...I didn't realise that there was no petrol light on a Jimny dashboard and ran out of fuel on Xmas eve trying to find a garage that was open!?!?

Oooooops! I tend to fill up when the fuel gauge needle points near empty Sorry

JimnyJu wrote: My Jimny suffers with the "wobble" occaisonally, mostly on the flat, at approx 45mph and most often when fuel tank is more than half full. The wobble goes when I reach 50 or go back down to 40mph.
Could you kindly advise me what parts of the car should be looked at or adjusted. I'm a very untechnical female but fortunately, or maybe not, my teenage son is a mechanic so what parts should I tell him to look at? Is it dangerous if the wobble isn't sorted.
Thanking you very much in advance for any help or advice

Mine does this with one set of wheels, but doesn't with the other set of wheels I use. Try finding a tyre place that can balance the wheels properly by bolting them onto the balancing machine (in the same way the wheel bolts onto the hub) rather than using the centre point mounting that clamps the wheel through the centre bore.

JimnyJu wrote: I didn't realise that there was no petrol light on a Jimny dashboard and ran out of fuel on Xmas eve trying to find a garage that was open!?!?

The Jimny has twin trip meters, like a motorbike, and it remembers what trip it was last displaying too. Simply zero the trip when you fill up, then fill up when it shows 200 miles (It should do about 250-260: you can cut it as fine as you dare)

JimnyJu wrote: My Jimny suffers with the "wobble" occaisonally, mostly on the flat, at approx 45mph and most often when fuel tank is more than half full. The wobble goes when I reach 50 or go back down to 40mph.
Could you kindly advise me what parts of the car should be looked at or adjusted. my teenage son is a mechanic so what parts should I tell him to look at? Is it dangerous if the wobble isn't sorted.
Thanking you very much in advance for any help or advice

Get him to change the swivel (kingpin) bearings (they are always gone on a jimny) and the swivel housing dust seals if they are worn. There is a "how to" on the front page.


The only advice you might need is

• Never ever use 4wd on clean tarmac
• A jimny can be very tail happy in the wet or on a slippery surface.

Apart from that: enjoy

Thank you All. I do normally fill up after 200 but then someone said Id be alright for maybe 40 miles when the light came on. Haha and the light never came on, cos there wasnt one It was on red so I shouldn't have left it so late
I'll try and zero the trip moniter but wasn't able to do that when I initially tried.
I also have had the wheels balanced but not sure how it was done and it made no difference.
I'll get my son on the case with the Kingpins etc thanks for the advice.
Is there a nack of getting out of 4wd when in it? I did drive about 20miles on tarmac when I couldn't get it out of 4wd. My Jimny is a 2004 model

JimnyJu wrote: I'll try and zero the trip moniter but wasn't able to do that when I initially tried.

On my 2000 model, each press of the button cycles between A > B > odometer.
With it on A or B press and hold the button for about 5 seconds longer than you think, and it jumps back to zero.

JimnyJu wrote: I'll get my son on the case with the Kingpins etc thanks for the advice.

He can check them for play, but they are always gone, they rust and wear, it is only the tightness of new bearings and the friction in the dust seal that prevents wheel wobble. New bearings are relatively cheap.

JimnyJu wrote: Is there a nack of getting out of 4wd when in it? I did drive about 20miles on tarmac when I couldn't get it out of 4wd. My Jimny is a 2004 model

Either jack up a front wheel, or simply drive on a slippery surface like wet grass and it will come out.
What happens is when you turn the front wheels try to travel further than the back ones, and this literally "winds up" the axles (like those liquorice twists we used to eat as kids). On mud the wheels can slide a bit to release the strain, on tarmac the strain gets released when a CV joint breaks

In general 4wd is for when the car won't move at all or you find that the back of the car is overtaking the front all the time.