I have a 4" Full Traction long arm lift that had the drop pitman arm. The draglink paralleled the track bar and all was fine.

I'd been reading about the steering box sector shaft failures, and one thought is that the drop pitman puts more leverage on the steering box than does a flipped drag link. I plan on 37s soon, and thought it might be worth piece of mind. I'd hate to be in the middle of nowhere and loose my steering box.

I wasn't sure if flipping the drag link would keep the geometry parallel while using my existing Full Traction drop track bar bracket. I talked to Mel at ORE and he assured me it would work together (I searched for a thread here and couldn't find one).

I am happy to report that the track bar and drag link are still parallel. The install was a piece of cake (I already had a pitman arm puller and a good breaker bar).

I took the Jeep for a test drive and she even steers better. It wasn't bad before but had a slight bit of dead area in the steering. This mod seems to have reduced or eliminated it (which might just be due to a new drag link end). I have no bump steer and she feels more connected to the road at highway speeds.

Hopefully, too, the strain on the steering box will be lessend as opposed to a drop pitman.

This was a nice addition to the Jeep and the TeraFlex unit is top notch.

-Randy

 

How about some pics showing your new geometry?

Mel is the man! One look around the projects in his shop and you know why.

 

Alright.....I'll do it.

 

I also did the drag link flip and it worked awesome for me...

highly recommend it

 

How exactly does it "work"? I mean.....your tie rod is still hangin and swangin.

 

I too had the FT 4" LA kit, but I ordered the AEV high steer kit. I removed the dropped pitman arm and the trackbar drop bracket. Did you just remove the dropped pitman arm, leaving the trackbar drop bracket? If so, it doesn't make sense to me how the geometry would work... unless FTs geometry is that off. I'll get a pic of mine.

I just got this installed, and now I look at it and it's not aligned. I'm gonna need to install the trackbar drop bracket.

 

Heres what I did and it's worked perfectly. I have about 4.5 inch of lift and I installed the Teraflex flip kit but I was getting some bump steer from the track bar and drag link not being close to parallel. I got a front trackbar bracket from JKS that allows you to mount the trackbar at a higher location. I also move the trackbar back up to the original frame mounting location.

So I basically have just the Teraflex flipped drag link and the JKS front trackbar bracket. This allowed but the draglink and the trackbar to be raised up to be parallel. I'll try to take some pics later and show the near perfect geometry I got from this.

All in all with this amount of lift you just need to buy a flipped drag link and the JKS bracket and I think you'll be good I realize this probably won't work with more or less lift but on my Jeep it turned out perfect!

 

Don't you already have a trackbar riser bracket on the axle side?

 

Exactly!

I removed the drop pitman arm and kept the FT drop bracket. The two are just about perfectly parallel (and if they aren't exact, I can't tell).

Your's is definitely off and in need of help. You'll have some bumpsteer.

-Randy

 

Yeah, the tie rod is still down low... Solutions for that seem to be on the way....

The drag link flip will get the drag link parallel with the track bar with less strain on the steering box than a drop pitman arm.

I can say for me, this was a win-win: better handling and less stress and strain on the steering box.

-Randy