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a lil bit of bump steer

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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 06:19 PM
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this is the deal, lift came with a drop pitman arm and track bar drop bracket, installed both and it drove nice. recently put a full traction adjustable trac bar, took the drop bracket off(trac bar) and still running drop pitman. is the problem that im still running the drop pitman and need to go back to the stock one? plan on fixing this problem this weekend so any advice would be helpful
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 06:27 PM
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Yep, remove one and your geometry is off.

A vid that TF posted:
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 07:04 PM
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so the thing to do is put the stock pitman back on and all should be well?
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 07:30 PM
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yes, you cannot have a dropped pitman arm installed without a track bar relocation bracket or vice versa. to do this would cause your track bar and drag link to no longer be parallel and this will cause problems with your handling. you need to reinstall your factory pitman arm.
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Old Dec 9, 2010 | 09:57 PM
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thanks WOL i knew i could count on you to reply. what about the rear does it matter. if running an adjustable rear trac bar. can i trash that rear bracket for the trac bar? just go straight to the factory location and just beef it up with a jks bracket?
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Old Dec 12, 2010 | 08:23 AM
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its a done deal... took the pitman off yesterday, no bump steer at all thanks for all the replies
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