I just added a track bar bracket Front Track Bar Bracket for 07-13 Jeep JK Wrangler [1118] | Rough Country Suspension Systems I have a 3" BDS lift and I have had an adjustable track bar on for a year or so. I added this bracket for two reasons: 1) added strength 2) help correct geometry. After I was done, I did have to adjust the track bar (shorten it) and adjust the steering wheel. It tracks fine and doesn't pull, overall it feels better except at higher speeds when I hit dips (not bumps) it feels light or like it's floating. The only way to describe it is like when you try to put 2 similar poles of a magnet together and they try to repel each other. Not extremely bad, but enough to make me ponder. I have the steering stabilizer almost perfectly parallel with the tie rod, where before it was slightly off. I'm wondering if it is the steering stabilizer (only 15k miles) or too much caster. Doing what I did shouldn't have changed caster. I have checked everything and all bolts are tight.

Ideas?

 

Is that bracket the same one that is used with their drop pitman? How parallel are the trackbar/draglink now, compared to before the bracket went on.

 

I think they were parallel and now they are not.



Just contacted Rough Country and that is it. Thanks, learn something new each day.

 

I might be a little wrong on what the part actually does , but if you raised the track bar mount and didnt flip the drag link you are going to have issues

You was better off the first way you had it , so why did you change

 

you now have bump steer. You need to flip your drag link to the top of the knuckle so it is parallel to the track bar

 

^^^Bingo!

 

A drop down pitman should fix the nonparallel problem and eliminate the "bump steer".

The main reason for the new bracket is strength, it has a "U" bolt that wraps around the axle housing plus you drill into the spring perch and bolt it to the perch.

 

yea... No. If you raised the axle side track bar a drop pitman arm would throw it further out of the same plane. You would need to raise the drag link at the knuckle to get it back to being parallel. Think about it like this... Two bars start off parallel. Then you raise the bottom of one and drop the top of the other. You could use a drop pitman if you dropped the frame side of the track bar instead of raising the axle side. But that's not a good idea.

 

A drop pitman arm would be used with a frame side drop bracket to keep the links moving in the same plane. Not the axle side like said. This would result in increased body roll and a top heavy feel in cornering or in off camber situations.

 

So I need to do the drag link flip? right.