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Hello everyone.
My Jimny has terrible wobble while I m driving with 60-65 km/hour. I made wheel balancing without any big improvement. So I started checking bars etc. I found that at the front there is a bar that has a little curve. I don't know if that its right or it has to be straight. Is it possible to be the problem? How is that bar called? Is it possible to change it myself or it has to lift the car from both sides? The bar is the black one and the curve is where the red arrow shows.
Thanks a lot.
In the UK it's called panhard rod
And is straight on rhd models
Lhd yours does have a bend
It holds the axle level with the car body.
You will need a ratchet strap if you intend to remove it.
When removed the body will move over and you will need ratchet strap around drivers side wheel with other end on the tow eye/tie down point on opposite side to pull back in line to refit the bolts
A wobble that occurs at or within a specific speed range will almost always be related to a wheel/tire problem, wheels out of balance, bent rims or tyres, swap the wheels front to back and see what happens.
I would consider it highly unlikely, but not impossible - it would need a considerable amount of slop in the joints and there will be numerous other signs that the UJs are on the way out. I once drove a "company provided work vehicle" until the UJs came apart (my requests to have the problem fixed fell on deaf ears), a wobble was not amongst the symptoms.
Does the wobble start every time you hit 60 kmh?
and go away when you reach 65kmh?
Or does it start when one wheel hit a bump?
Does it go away when you turn hard?
Any modfications or bigger tyres?
Usually when there iswobble it is play in something at the front wheels, bearings, tie rod ends, king pin bearings, wheel alignment can play a part if there is too little toe-in or if the car is lifted.
Yours look not lifted and with normal tyres.
Your Panhard rod looks fine to me and this little bend should not cause any wobble, and mine LHD have this too.
Usually a speed indused wobble from play would occur at around 80kmh but also bad balancing can do that.
I am more with Fordem here that it sounds like it is balancing or something other with the wheels.
Did you change your tyres lately? how did this start?
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