do what one of the other members stated........have someone turn the steering wheel back and forth and look for movement in parts......check tracbar bracket welded to the axle inspect the welds and look for movement......if the front tracbar bracket rips off you will have to change your skivies.....hope ya find the anwser......and check your steering stablizer for leaks, the dealer replaced my orginal when i first got my jeep, they put a new one on.....come to find out it wasn't adjusted properly from factory......it bottomed out at full turn....adjusted it and worked fine for a year before i upgraded to bigger tires..

 

well i just checked everything under the jeep and it seems to be normal. I dont have torque wrench at home but i put a normal wrench on the trac bar bolts and i couldnt even loosen them. no cracks or worn bushings..nothing out of the norm. Is it normal to be able to move the steering linkage? ( where the stabilizer is connected to) i can twist both front bars. i assume this is normal going to a ball joint in the knuckle.

 

a normal wrench is too short and will not give you the leverage that a long torque wrench can. trust me, put a torque wrench on them and you will be able to tighten them more and if it's with ease, that will be your problem right there.

regarding your drag link and tie-rod, they are attached with ball joints and them being able to rotate is normal. if they shift within their joints (up and down or side to side), that could be your problem as well - but, i really doubt this would be the case.

at this point and time, i would go back to square one, get a torque wrench and use it to tighten up your track bar bolts.

 

will do WOL. I get my wheels and tires tomorrow so up on the lift it goes. check it all out then on the ground to torque it all up. Thanks for everyones help...i hope this gets resolved.

 

I actually had to over tighten my trackbar on the frame side because there was a little play in the joint. It was only noticable when I would hit a bump or turn left. The axle would shift enough that I could see it un-center my sterring wheel.

Just a thought.

 

a toe setting that is quite out of spec will cause a bit of a wobble. you need to have that thing aligned asap, imo.

 

while it is true that a toe out of spec can instigate DW, it is also that can be fixed at home with a tape measure and a wrench. IMHO, save your money and a trip to the alignment shop and verify your toe at home and make adjustments as necessary.