There's an issue with Nissan Safari/Patrol panhards and wheel shimmy.The rubber bushes (OEM) have the metal sleeve bonded to the rubber, the sleeve is held tight on the mount by washers/nut - so it's hard to see any evidence of free-play. The shimmy can be intermittent - the bush can be held tight enough by the nuts/washers to stay stable until you hit a bump etc, then it'll start up again. Jack it under the diff, loosen the nuts on the bushes, and you can see that if there's a tiny amount of free-play in the bushes, it translates into a big movement in toe-in/out - look at the front wheels when you wobble it.At a certain speed - between 90 and 100km/h with the Patrol - it sets up and oscillates, but "goes away" above or below that speed. Often misdiagnosed as balance/alignment or steering damper - but if everything else is okay you hardly need a damper on the road - you probably won't even notice if it's removed - it's more to stop the wheel getting wrenched out of your hands when off-road.Putting an extra-heavy steering damper in to get rid of shimmy is crooked thinking.
Incidentally.I believe from reading alot about the Jeep Wrangler that they fixed the DW in the 2010 model.
sundown,
Feb 8, 6:35am
I've have decided.when i can afford to upgrade.it will be to the 2010.not going to take any unnecessary risks on the earlier model!
strobo,
Feb 9, 6:27am
Remember that stuff is designed and made for off road low speeds really , Getting onto open roadspeeds some dynamics interplay that can turn nasty for want of better words and give some grief.Not a high speed vehicle and i can give many reasons why .But jeep is jeep . nice truck :)
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