Me and a friend of mine own 14 Cherokees from 1989-2001. A few of them are stock, a few of them are lifted to clear 35 inch tires. We build them for offroad use, so I can pretty much declare that you have the basically "incurable" death wobble.
Cherokees are HORRIBLE handling contraptions on the highways, especially curves. Most of the cherokees that we get have over 100,000 on them, and they ALL suffer from death wobble. What I mean by "incurable" doesn't necessarily mean you can't fix it - it means that you basically have to install an entire new suspension underneath it to solve most of its problems.
The areas for death wobble, in order from the most likely to the least likely, are: upper and lower control arm bushings; steering box and tie rod end play; poor front end alignment; bent wheels; and crappy tires.
Another thing is that because Cherokees are basically crappy built chrysler UNIBODIES, the flexing and articulation can weaken and sever spot welds on them, causing vibration of the metal parts where the suspension mounts to.
BOTTOM LINE - unless you want to spend the money to rebuild the control arms and install new tie rod ends and other items, Just take the steering wheel off and drive a new Cherokee under it.
Or you can give us your death wobble problems and we'll retrofit it with 33's and a 4 inch lift kit.
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