Take a look at post #37 on this thread. There you will see a pic of the Tera HD TB with a ARB Diff cover. Works with out rubbing.

 

lol maybe I need to pay more attention. thanks

 

No prob. Hope that the pic helps

 

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naw, you've just challenged my "professionalism" and have been trying to mock my "Mr. Administrator" status and that's cool. doing so won't change the fact that you are wrong in your comparison of the TJ track bar you had with JK track bars or that they would break in a similar way. you are also wrong about trying to spread this kind of FUD and i'm glad that i've been able to put your zealous proclamations into perspective.

you my friend are trying to hurt the credibility of any and all track bar designs that are not made like the one that TF makes. you have done so by erroniously providing as proof the inferior track bar that you had on your TJ and the break it suffered. and, your passive agressive attacks on them by saying on the one hand that these companies make good products and on the other, would never buy them due to your lack of trust in their design is misleading and i do feel that it's totally necessary to point that out to people that may not know any better.

again, i am sorry that you are so offended by my comments or my "tone" but honestly, i have just been calling it like it is.

yup, you are 100% correct on this, your TJ track bar broke and you have good reason not like the fact that it used a weak TRE.

great. that means you also realize that the break you had on your TJ would not happen on a JK and that your original assertions that there was any similarities between the two is in fact wrong

 

Well, I guess we can agree to disagree. I expressed an opinion and you have turned that into an attack on the credibility of each company as a whole. In your own statement you said "your passive agressive attacks on them by saying on the one hand that these companies make good products and on the other, would never buy them due to your lack of trust in their design"

Who is misleading who here? I never said I would not buy "products" from these companies. I said I would not buy that design "TRACK BAR"...I NEVER SAID anywhere that I would not buy other products from these companies. I said they make good products...that means lift kits etc. You, my friend are the one misleading people here.

I said I don't like the design of a track bar that adjusts with a thread on the end. I still don't, and that is my opinion. (FYI, opinion is not fact) I also NEVER said this WOULD happen on a JK, I simply showed what happened on my TJ. It's no mystery they are different, but thank you for pointing that out to us all.

So...It's my opinion that a bar threaded at the end joint is weaker than the teraflex design. It's your opinion that that is not fact. It is your opinion that the treaded option is safe and will NEVER break, as you said, on a JK. We get it.

Nearly every one of us on this forum had a TJ before we had a JK. Most of us know the TJ is a completely different animal than the JK, however we each have experiences of the past with the TJ that we carry over to our JK.

 

no my friend, you were trying to proclaim that track bars that are not designed like TF are somehow dangerous and that they can potentially kill people. you did this by posting pics of your TJ track bar as some kind of proof and proceeded to tell everyone of your fateful story. you then tried to suggesting that the company who made the weak track bar also makes good products but of course, the only thing that this company actually makes IS the track bar. likewise, you then tried to suggest that all the other companies in question make good products but then in the same breath, you declair that you would never use a product that they make. sorry, but you simply cannot have your cake and eat it too.

ummm, in case you missed it, this thread IS about track bars and which one to get. we are not talking about "other products". likewise, what you refer to as being "that design track bar" was in fact a TJ track bar with a TRE. there are NO JK track bars that use "THAT" design

yes, it is.

duh?

but yet you felt the need to post pics and detail your story about how your TJ track bar broke and how you almost got killed and how you would never trust a design that uses an end that threads into the track bar and all in fear that it would happen again. sure, you never said specifically that this would happen on a JK, but you sure as hell made a case for it happening. or, at least that's what i saw when i first read your post.

well apparently it's still a mystery to you as you still seem to insist that the design of most JK track bars are dangerous in spite of the fact that i keep pointing the differences out to you.

FACT - you have never seen a JK track bar fail at the joint. FACT - your assertions that a track bar with a threaded end is somehow weak is AN OPINION.

FACT - i have installed and personally run many JK track bars. FACT - my experience has shown me NO signs of weakness, stress, cracks, fractures or otherwise to suggest that any of these track bars have the potential to break in the same way that your TJ TRE broke. i do not need to rely on my opinion when i have PROOF.

and this is where you are wrong again. our surveys have shown that a vast majority of our members have indicated that their JK is their very first jeep. likewise, for someone like you who had a TJ and professes to know a thing or two about it, i have to say that you could have fooled me.

 

I see I am dealing with someone who is hard headed. You have made up your mind that it's your way of thinking or nothing.

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You have misled your readers by throwing my comments into an attack on the vendors.

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I have now wasted at least 3 hours of my life I can never get back discussing this with you.

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I wish you the best. I am done with this thread.

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thanks for the laughs
cya

 

I just spent the last hour taking down my trackbar, adjusting it, measuring it, putting it back together, driving it, taking it down, adjusting it,...

So right now, the idea of an adjustable bar like the Tera appeals to me.

BUT, if you're concerned about the damn thing snapping, having that adjustable collar in the shaft would make me think it could be MORE LIKELY to be a weak point, and MORE LIKELY to fail at that point, or at least be just as likely to be a potential weak link in the chain.

Any NON-SOLID part is going to be a weak point, won't it??? Does the position of the adjustable portion make a difference?

Does the TeraFlex turnbuckle have any history of failing?