Heim nuts like to move.... loctite is your buddy.

 

Thanks, I'm gonna lock tight the shit out of them this weekend!

 

if it is a jam nut coming loose what will happen?? i mean will my front axle shift? trackbar come off?? the reason i ask is because i wont be able to get to retighten it until this weekend, i drive 20 miles a day highway.

 

Go by a dang parts store and get a crescent wrench! How can it make your axle shift? It can only loosen up and turn as much as the heim with a bolt through it. At worst you'll have a little sloppy steering and feel on the road and damage that heim

 

i have the tools to tighten it i just dont have the time, nor a covered garage we had a ice storm last night, everything is soaked and frozen and my back yard where i do all my DIY on my jeep looks like a lake, i was just making sure that it wouldnt shift the axle but never thought about the heim cant turn becuase of the bolt through it lol thanks for the info

 

It literally takes 1 min to straighten the heim and tighten it. I do understand that it's freezing. Cold weather and me are like someone and their worst exgirlfriend. I hate it

 

lol most def

 

Loose jam nuts are a bad thing.... the threads in the bung and heim will wear on each other. Tighten it as soon as you can.

 

X2 on this. Leaving it loose will cause the threads to wear out. I had it happen on a control arm and didn't realize it till the flex joint ripped out of the control arm. Definitely not something you want to have happen with your tracbar

 

There is a bunch of good questions in this post!

First one is first to the OP, the misalignment spacers are what fell out of the heim joint when you cut the zip tie... not the heim joint fell out. The factory track bar does not have the kind of misalignment that our track bar has because the factory one does not have a heim in it. We use a heim joint on the axle end and put the misalignment spacers in it so that it has a lot more and bind free movement. As far as greasing the crawler joints in your arm you will want to put a grease gun on them and see if they will take a few pumps every other oil change or so.

As far as the heim being misaligned to one side of the bracket goes, you want the heim to stand straight up and down in the bracket it is in. This means that it has equal misalignment in each direction and will not bind up. If the heim joint binds in the bracket it can cause your jam nuts to come loose.

We tell you to use red loctite on all of the jam nuts in the system to ensure once you have tightened them that they stay tight. If a jam nut is loose for an extended period of time then it will wear the threads on the bar that it threads into and eventually the joint will pull out resulting in a stripped arm.

Hope this helps clarify some of the questions we saw here!

RK