- Location
- Port Orchard, WA
Honsetly, I think its because my frame flex around the steering box area was outta control!
my steering box moved (and the whole frame with it) about 1" side to side, and the trackbar moved too...
there were several MORE cracks than before, and a few of my previous welds to 'stiffen things up' in that area were cracked (material failures - not weld failures)...
so I welded some 1.5x1.5x.120 Box to my TNT customs trackbar bracket to keep it from moving, then cut up some 2.5x1x.120 rec tube, and welded that to the bottom of the frame from the trackbar bracket all the way forward to the front of the frame (3 sections, WEIRD ass cuts, BIG gaps!:gee
and welded all that to my outer JKS plate and my inner JKS plate... this minimised the flex... but I think with my high steer arms being shorter than my pitman arm, the axle end steering stops will hit before the internal steering box stops will, and it will always flex (or something will go pop! :shhh
I found that my axle stops hit, and the box has about 1/4 turn before the box stops hit in both directions after aligning my junk - it was set so that the box stops hit before the axle end when turing left (that and the frame flex is what fawked me over) and now its equal both ways...
Cliff notes: XJ's have a wet noodle frame, steering arm geometry is importiant, my junk is junk
