Death trap? steering / suspension

Hi guys,
I think it's time to draw on your wisdom once more.
My 95 110 has started to scare the ****e out me. It's developed a terrifying steering wobble which shakes the whole car to the point where it feels like I'm about to loose control of it.
The car naturally pulls to the left, I have to hold the wheel at 45 deg's right to go straight.
If I'm doing 45+ and take a left bend which the car will follow naturally and with no pos or neg force on the steering, the wheel starts to wobble in my hands. The wobble then gets worse and worse, the whole car begins to shake uncontrollably, until I put pressure back on the steering wheel.
Also does this after hitting a bump in the road with the l/hs at similar speeds, in this case the juddering lasts for about a second.
There doesn't appear to be any play in ball joints, however the steering damper does have worn bushes, although not ideal, I can't see this as the cause.
To add to this, the back end has turned into a bouncy castle. Rear dampers knackered?;;

Any suggestions? (apart from buy another one). ; )

Thanks guys!!!!

Rear dampers sound dead, and cheap (ish) and easy for starters. Won't be helping with the front end either.

Front sounds a bit unsafe to drive........ Big play in my steering was the drop arm swivel, but this was just movement in the steering wheel, not wobble. Wobble sounds more hub end of the deal. If bushes / ball joints really are sound, then is there movement on the hub with wheel off the ground? Side to side prob bearings, top and bottom poss swivel pins/shims....? Hope you find source soon - maybe keep the speed well down (maybe 0 mph....) til then..... A

front radius arm bushes..

just done mine as i was having same wobbles on my disco..

get someone to rock the car and look underneath..

my front axle was twisting to the point where the flange to the prop on the diff was moving up n down 3 inches

changed bushes myself, never done em before, burnt out old bushes the cut sleeve with a hacksaw, pressed new ones in with my 5 inch engineers vice.. with a length of scaffold pole on the handle..

do a search for death wobble, it brings up lots of similar problems

I bet £1 million its the panardrod bush that joins the chassis.
Jack up the front with wheels on and get the wife/kids/friend to wiggle the passenger wheel and look at that bush for movement. Should be NO more than 1mm of movement.

Also check you drop arm nut is tight

Sounds like damper is nackered too as is shouldn't allow the vehicle to do that.

Cheers guys!!!!
I put the landy through an mot a couple of months back, by coincidence he said he'd tightened two of the wheel bearings.
Hmmmm, wonder if he fooked that up like he did one of the rear nearside drive flange bolts..... He'd sheared one of them and packed it with a bit of torn off gasket to hold the bolt in.
I've got booked into ultimate land rover Tuesday next week for them to sort as I don't fancy making it any worse. Will keep you posted, what they find may help someone else.

Until then I'm only gonna use it for local pootles. : (

Cheers again chappies!!!

I wouldn't even use it for local pootles, frickin' dangerous.

I reckon it's a combination of problems, commonly know as a clusterf*ck!

Wheel bearings, swivel pins, bushes (especially panhard rod)... One has gone and the extra strain has caused others to fail. The steering damper and bushes taking the brunt. All simple spannering jobs.

But really, keep it off the road until it's fixed! If it catastrophically fails you could well end up causing a really nasty accident - it's not how fast you're going it's the other on the road and pedestrians are quite soft!

I had a death wobble where both wheels would shake side to side to the point it felt like the axle was about to get ripped off. Turned out to be the steering damper was knackered.

minimole23 said:

I had a death wobble where both wheels would shake side to side to the point it felt like the axle was about to get ripped off. Turned out to be the steering damper was knackered.

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Steering damper will only help mask underlying issues.......not be a cause of them

minimole23 said:

I had a death wobble where both wheels would shake side to side to the point it felt like the axle was about to get ripped off. Turned out to be the steering damper was knackered.

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I agree wiv BB, you've got a serious problem there what's being masked by the damper. It will fail again. And pretty soon pro'ly...

ScratchyDom said:

I agree wiv BB, you've got a serious problem there what's being masked by the damper. It will fail again. And pretty soon pro'ly...

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Been fine for 6 months, when everything else has been checked or replaced if suspect.

I had the same wobble and problem last week, read my first post!!!