Trackbar looks to be ok. I think the post about the wollered out hole was for the lower trackbar bracket welded to the frame. During DW the trackbar moves side to side and wears out the hole the bolt for the trackbar mounts to.

ok a few questions :
1.---- when the Trackbar was installed, was the jeep under its own weight sitting on the ground and then torqued ?

2.---- When the lift was installed, did the installers loosen all the control arm bolts and then re-torque them once the jeep was under it's own weight sitting on the ground when they finished the install ?

some people install a lift and without loosening the control arms bolts front and back (all 8 ) and then drive it, this puts the control arm bushings in a bind and sometimes twists them up. leaving the bushings in the stock position after a lift will cause problems and the rig will not drive right ( flighty feeling).

3.---- did you notice if the DW occurs when the passenger side front wheel hits a bump/pothole/RR tracks first ?

also,check your mileage compared to others here on the forum and their ball joint issues.

When you guys start re-torquing everything today......make sure the rig is on the ground.....lossen the trackbar bolts top and bottom and have someone bounce the front end of the rig up and down a few times ( i got on my bumper and did this) then re-torque the bolts to 125-130 FT.LBS. after 100 miles re-torque and again at 500 miles. if you loosen all the control arms bounce the front and rear then re-torque, and then do the trackbar. good luck

 

Our DW started right after we rotated our tires. We had the rancho stabilzer. We went thru and tightened everything and still DW. Our DW was around 40mph and would not stop until the car stopped, it was a scary feeling. The only thing we could think of is rotate the tires back and the DW seemed to be gone. We went ahead and changed the stabilzer to a fox one. It helped alot in the handling of the car no more steering wheel bounce when you hit a small road bump. We are thinking that one of the tires is bad. The other choice we have is.... we now have 33's and we need to go to a heavier tire. ORW recommended 35" tires for the 3" inch lift. I hope our DW does not return.

 

I run 37s with a 4.5" lift. I had DW start a few months after I installed everything. I checked and rechecked everything. I took it to two 4x4 alignment shops. Everything checked out, but I still had it. Finally I had all 4 tires DYNAMICALLY balanced (not spin balanced). That cured it. Has not come back. If you elect to try this, make sure the shop knows what they are doing. I would ask if they have a Hunter Engineering Road Force balancing machine. You will end up with wheel weights on the inside and the outside of the wheel, but its a small price to pay IMO.
Best of luck.
PS. I doubt the sway bar has anything to do with it. You want the sway bar near horizontal so the links don't reverse when you go to full droop.

 

Road forced balance is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than just spin balancing

 

From the looks of it in the 2nd picture, it appears that the passenger side upper contol arm bushing on the axle is fairly dry-rotted. It could be that these bushings are worn out/rotted enough to cause the DW. Remove the UCA and use a long pry bar to move the bushing around to see how much deflection/movement there is in the bushing.

 

Thanks he still did not have time to look at it. When he does he just gets so pissed off at the jeep I will mention this to him I already had him read through the others and everything checked out as "yes that is what I did". Almost seems like you need to keep spending money just to figure out the damn problem This is so frustrating and it makes it worse since this is my DD not his

 

Pain killer has it right ( yesterday11:27) to long to quote. Out of those lifts I have had to repair. And there has been a lot, I have the that the suspension was under stress. It only takes minutes to loose the upper and lower track bolts, all 8. Remove the adjustable end of the track bar before you jump up an down on the front bumper. Where ever the frontend settles adjust the track bar to it's mounts, not the axle to the track bar.

 

We are going to try this. We did not jump up and down on the bumper yet. I really feel that something is just loose. We already did over 3000 miles since the trackbar and SS have been installed with no DW. We did not retorque anything since than as some people sd things tend to loosen up more easier after a lift has been installed. I will keep everybody updated. Fingers crossed

 

Torque Specs ----> http://project-jk.com/jeep-jk-write-...ings#frontsusp

 

This is a definite possibility. You can have all the bolts torqued correctly and still have this problem. All it takes is a bad bushing or heim and a hard hit or two off road or even on road to cause this. The factory bracket isn't exactly strong.

I've had this problem several times with my full size prerunner. The washer welded over the hole is the best fix. As well as a new bushing obviously.

I would take the track bar off and check both mounting holes.