mattfl

A few weeks ago I installed Rough Country's 3.25" lift kit on my '12 Unlimited. It installed great and I love it. The only issue was it kicked my axle to the right about .25" so my right tire was farther out than my left. No problem, just need the track bar relocation bracket that rough country neglected to include in this kit. So I got that installed but now, my steering is extremely floaty. Like if I accelerate it tries to pull to the right and when I left off it goes back to the left. I also seem to be getting death wobble more, well, I never got it before but after the track bar bracket install I got it for the first time. I've got a new pitman arm ordered as that's what rough country told me I needed to do to fix the floaty steering and an alignment to fix the death wobble.

If I remove the bracket and put the trackbar in the stock location, I get neither floaty steering nor death wobble.

Is the pitman arm going to fix my issues or do I need to look at other options?

Just want a few second opinions. Thanks!

mattfl

No to adjustable control arms and I'm not sure what my caster is set. How can I check that?

Dwikto

My opinion is to stay away from drop pitman period. Your axle being off 1/4" is nothing actually that means you only need to move 1/8". Go back to how you had it before. Your TB relo bracket has put you geometry out of parallel meaning your trackbar and drag link. Better off just getting an adjustable trackbar to correct that allignment, or just leave it alone

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Dwikto

Additionally as mentioned before if you are going to put money in the control arms and trackbar is where I would start. U just switched from a similar set up to all teraflex front control arms and it is like a new jeep no sloppy steering and stopping is 100% better

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mattfl

Ya everything was fine steering wise before I put the bracket on. Gonna switch it back tonight.

Black_JKU

Deathwobble......... is the trackbar installed properly? Torque specs and all?

mattfl

Ya it was.

I took the bracket off and went back to stock. Steering is back to normal and no more wobble. Think I'll just keep it here and look into an adjustable trackbar in the future. Thanks everyone

robinson86

I have an adjustable track bar plus the bracket even though they say you don't need the bracket with the adjustable bar. The manufacturers of the track bar and the lift kit both said whatever is working for you, do it. So if it works without the bracket go for it, a friend of mine runs a 3" lift without brackets or adjustable trackbar and he looked at me funny when I complained about my original steering issues. The caster is what you need to correct though, to get your steering tight. Adjustable lca's, geomtry correcting brackets or Cambolts will do it. You can spend all night reading on that topic. Have fun!