A while ago I threw on Parts Mike's steering conversion and finally have everything dialed in and my death wobble gone (for now). I have the tie-rod mounted on top of the Dana 30 steering arms, so I had to raise the trac-bar at the axle in order to make it parallel to the drag link to prevent bump steer. So, since everything is done, I thought I would show some pictures of the set-up and also how I moved the trac-bar up. If you have any questions or comments, let me know.
Front View
As you can see, I mounted the steering stabilizer underneith the trac-bar on the same bracket. The was the stabilizer attaches to the tie-rod sucks and hangs low but it works for now. When I do the Rubicon in a few weeks, I will just take it completely off while on the trail. Also check out how perfectly parallel the drag link and trac-bar are! It is Rusty's trac bar that was shortened and I flipped it around so that the adj. end is at the axle. This provided for better oil-pan clearence.
Raised trac-bar bracket at axle
The main bracket is a piece of my friends rocker skids that he cut off, which turned out to be the correct inner dimention for the trac-bar bushing and steering stabilizer. For lateral support, we added a triangular fin the goes from the bracket to kind of in front of the coil. For more stregnth, we welded a piece of strap from the bracket to the upper control arm bracket.
Top view of bracket (shows reinforcement strap to upper control arm bracket better)
Finally, what the kit looks like (Picture is from Parts Mike's web-site.
Front View
As you can see, I mounted the steering stabilizer underneith the trac-bar on the same bracket. The was the stabilizer attaches to the tie-rod sucks and hangs low but it works for now. When I do the Rubicon in a few weeks, I will just take it completely off while on the trail. Also check out how perfectly parallel the drag link and trac-bar are! It is Rusty's trac bar that was shortened and I flipped it around so that the adj. end is at the axle. This provided for better oil-pan clearence.
Raised trac-bar bracket at axle
The main bracket is a piece of my friends rocker skids that he cut off, which turned out to be the correct inner dimention for the trac-bar bushing and steering stabilizer. For lateral support, we added a triangular fin the goes from the bracket to kind of in front of the coil. For more stregnth, we welded a piece of strap from the bracket to the upper control arm bracket.
Top view of bracket (shows reinforcement strap to upper control arm bracket better)
Finally, what the kit looks like (Picture is from Parts Mike's web-site.
