Rocking back and forth, what did I do?

[Dvl-Dog]

Hey all. Having an issue after installing lift and tires on my 2 door.

Took my stock 2014 Willys 2 door with just under 60K highway miles and Installed the Metalcloak 3.5” True Duel Rate and Fox shocks. Drove for about a week around town waiting for my 1.5” wheel spacers to come in. Only issue I noticed while driving that week was rubbing during tight turns. After installing wheel spacers I no longer have the rubbing but now have “rocking” in my steering wheel, for lack of a better term. It happens about 90% of the time typically at 40mph and up on both newly paved roads as well as roads with dips and pot holes. It is not a shimmy like a tire out of balance but a rocking back and forth of the steering wheel. Took to alignment shop prior to installing wheel spacers to get everything lined up correctly.

I have rechecked torque twice and rechecked all measurements and all appears to be fine.

Trying to figure out how to eliminate this without just throwing parts at it.

Surely I can’t be the only one that had this issue. What is it and how do I fix it? Thanks for any advice you guys can offer.

 

[BLACKJKU]

Are your tires new?

Maybe try moving the fronts to the rear and see what happens.

Was the steering gearbox checked for play?

 

[Dvl-Dog]

Are your tires new?

Maybe try moving the fronts to the rear and see what happens.

Was the steering gearbox checked for play?

Brand new 35’s, steering gearbox has no play.
If it was more of a shimmy I would be thinking a wheel spacer was not perfectly flat.

 

[BLACKJKU]

Brand new 35’s, steering gearbox has no play.
If it was more of a shimmy I would be thinking a wheel spacer was not perfectly flat.

That could be a spacer issue at a faster speed it would get worse.

 

[JeepJeezy]

Are they hubcentric spacers?

 

[Dvl-Dog]

Are they hubcentric spacers?

Says they are.

 

[JeepJeezy]

Says they are.

OK good. Did you take it to an alignment shop that deals with lifted vehicles?

 

[Jermbob28]

What brand of wheel spacers did you go with? That is when this issue arouse correct?

 

[Dvl-Dog]

OK good. Did you take it to an alignment shop that deals with lifted vehicles?

Yes. Well they buy Wranglers, put lifts under them then sells them, and they are an auto parts store that does tires and alignments.

What brand of wheel spacers did you go with? That is when this issue arouse correct?

Don’t remember, came from Amazon.

 

[BLACKJKU]

You could swap the spacers from front to back and see what happens.

 

[Jermbob28]

Yes. Well they buy Wranglers, put lifts under them then sells them, and they are an auto parts store that does tires and alignments.

Don’t remember, came from Amazon.

I would double check that they are hub centric. I don’t know what they are but I personally would not run an off brand for wheel spacers, I’ve seen them fail and that can be so incredibly dangerous. I have spidertrax.

Try taking off the spacers and testing it out again. Based on what you said, they seem to have brought on the issue.