Rk adjustable track bar hem joint
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JK Enthusiast
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From: Central, La
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
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
