tie rod flip inserts for easy high steer?

[DangerousJordan]

has anybody heard of or had any expeirince with these guys? or tride this on a cherokee, because it aparently works on tj's so why not xjs? and how much does it actaully move the tie rod? http://www.goferitoffroad.com/products.htm

 

[HaleYes]

It puts the tietod on top of the knuckle. You'll actually gain quite a bit. Raising the drivers side is no big deal. Now if you decide to flip the passanger side it gets more complicated. You'll need to do a little more work to get it to work well. Raise the trackbar mount, RHD draglink, stuff like that. This is all assuming you are running the stock steering setup.

Hale

 

[JNickel101]

Would there be any problem with just flipping the driver's side and not doing the passenger side?

 

[HaleYes]

Would there be any problem with just flipping the driver's side and not doing the passenger side?

Not at all.
The only thing to worry about is clearance between the tierod and the rim. It's not doable with stock rims, there isn't enough clearance. You'll need more backspacing and/or a 16" rim. If you run a beefy tierod, it may get into the swaybar mount.
Hale

Hale

 

[Ramsey]

Mine gets into the sway bar mount. Cut it off a long time ago.

 

[HaleYes]

Mine gets into the sway bar mount. Cut it off a long time ago.

Stock tie rod?

 

[Ramsey]

the alumiflex one, dont think its any larger than the stock one, if so its not much bigger.

 

[XJourney]

I run the driverside flip kit with stock 16" wheels. The tie rod hit the swaybar bracket, so I lightly clearanced it. Great cheap mod

 

[Mutant_Xj]

GOJEEP has a write up on this in his web site. It didn't seem too hard and he also used stock rims if I remember corectly. It's been a while since I read it.

 

[mattyj]

Great cheap mod. I had to shave a little off my drivers side swaybar bracket to gain some clearance at full left lock..... but i do have a currie tie rod.

i would have to say its worth doing, every little bit of clearance helps!

 

[Gojeep]

GOJEEP has a write up on this in his web site. It didn't seem too hard and he also used stock rims if I remember corectly. It's been a while since I read it.

I used 16" rims in my write up but showed a picture of my spare stock steel 15" rim fitted which still cleared. www.go.jeep-xj.info

 

[DangerousJordan]

so would this work with rusty's heavy duty tierod conversion? (not rusty's highsteer which i probably should have gotten)

 

[ert01]

Are there any benefits to flipping the drivers side other then clearance? I mean, it won't help the angles at all or anything will it?

 

[rstarch345]

Here's a link to the way I did it. Works with stock 15" wheels. http://www.soxja.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=292

 

[hdcherokee]

i had them with rustys tie rod conversion. i liked the set up but there was a lot of play in the steering wheel before the tires would ture. the sway bar mounts on the axle get hit by the steering arm when turning. so you have to make new mounts. i had 15x10 wheels with 4in back spaceing. for steering if i had to do it again i would go with the down east off road conversion.

 

[cal]

Are there any benefits to flipping the drivers side other then clearance? I mean, it won't help the angles at all or anything will it?

No. The draglink will still max out when you droop. If you want to help angles, you need to change steering setups.. the inverted Y doesn't cut it with a tall lift.

 

[ert01]

That's what I figured...

I'm in the process of figuring out what I need to fix my steering since things are pretty worn out down there and I'm still running the stock steering on a lifted Jeep... I'm at 4.5" and I figure I'll do the drivers side flip and I'll put in a v8 ZJ tierod on there while I'm at it. I don't know enough though about what will help out my angles. If I'm thinking about this the right way, the only thing to help with the stock inverted Y angles on a lifted Jeep would be to make a new trackbar bracket raising the lower mounting point on the axle up, or dropping the top frame mount down. Am I correct or is there something else that would fix things? A drop pitman arm would make the angles worse wouldn't it?