Speaking of history, Wikipedia even lists 'death wobble' in relation to
motorcycles 'AND' Jeeps!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_wobble
Sure some 'biker' might have first coined the phrase BEFORE 1949 EH,
when the first civilian Jeep came out, or was it before Austin made the
design in 1905, but the phrase relates to steering dynamics with one
pivot point. Both the Jeep and motorcycle have that geometry.
Using the phrase in relation****p to Jeeps is quite proper and if you
weren't such a self confessed Jeep dolt, you would know that.
Mike
Frank wrote:
> "DougW" <I.only.read.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:OMVZj.125560$Ft5.48747@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Mike Romain wrote:
>>> Frank wrote:
>>>> "jeffinputnam" <jeffinputnam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>> news:482F6D96.2070108@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> On 5/17/2008 Mike Romain wrote:
>>>>>> Is yours rusted away or worn away or what?
>>>>> Rusted away to the point of being able to see through it.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's fixed now, though I still don't like the price but the Death
>>>>> Wobble is gone, the jeep steers and handles better than it has in a
>>>>> very long time and it turns out the guy's got a cabin and land
>>>>> upstate I can visit and use anytime with a nothing but a phone
>>>>> call. It'll make a good base for long hikes.
>>>>>
>>>>> J
>>>> Death wobble......
>>>>
>>>> BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Speaking of dolts...
>> No kidding. Death Wobble has been around since solid
>> front axles. Just wish Jeep would have worked a bit
>> more on the steering geometry and not used a Y design.
>>
>
> You sir are full of bs. The term stemmed from problems with a certain
> motorcycle. So let's see which of you two morons knows a little recent
> history.
>
>>> You must have never driven either a motorcycle or a Jeep not to know
>>> that proper term.
>>>
>
> I "ride" a motorcycle, I drive a Jeep.
>
>>> The 'Death Wobble' is a very real term for a totally out of control
>>> front wheel that has gone into a harmonic wobble. If you don't slow
>>> to a stop, you will more than likely die if on a bike and maybe so in
>>> a Jeep when the front wheel rips off or you ditch it and roll.
>
> The two very significantly, if you had a clue you would know why. The
> term is misapplied to Jeeps and the various causes that Jeep dolts apply
> to the term has existed well before the Jeep and with various designs of
> the front and rear end. If you had half a clue both of you would know
> this.
>
>> Frank probably has one of those outrigger/hotwheel-wannabe cars that
>> would high center on a dog turd.
>>
>
> Sounds to me like you speak from experience, I would never have known
> cars that would do that.
>
> A jeep is not a car moron, and both of you lack the brains you were born
> with. Neither of you knows what the "death wobble" is nor how the term
> originated. Both of you are idiots when it comes to Jeep suspensions of
> any style.
>
> Sigh.
>> --
>> -- Doug Wuss
>
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