Steering Stablizers

[HotRodYJ]

I get tired of people bashing the use of steering stabilizers. Everyone seems to think you should avoid having one at all cost. The popular opinion seems to be if you think you need a stabilizer, you've got other issues you need to address. Steering Stabilizers are a band-aide fix and your avoiding or disguising other problems. This just is not necessarily the case IMO. Steering stabilizers can cause no harm, they can only help if you have a shimmy you can't seem to get rid of. Attached is a link that discribes this fairly well. It discusses resonant frequency's and why steering stabilizers where invented in the first place to dampen these vibrations that are very hard to design around. Then we as offroaders go switching stuff around from the way it was originally deisgned, changing to larger heavier tires and different backspacing on the wheels, swapping axles, then deisgning and building our own steering arrangements. The sum of all the parts can sometimes cause shimmy's we cannot explain. Sometimes all the parts and joints are brand new and we still have shimmy's. Resonant frequency's can be a very hard thing to get around, so don't discount the use of a stabilizer if you think it may help and you've already checked everything else. It defenitly cannot hurt a thing. Afterall, most solid axle trucks these days still come with a stabilizer from the factory. If the high paid Engineers at Ford and GM cant design all the vibs out of a system, what makes you think you can?

Enjoy...

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[Thumpszilla]

Nice article really informative. I am actuallt considering a dual steering stabilizer in the near future.