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BlackDiamondBound
01-01-2005, 01:59 AM
replaced my old steering with the only thing i could afford so here it is. does everything look ok? (sorry for the large pictures i will try to make them smaller)

before
http://img51.exs.cx/img51/3808/small19qb.jpg

after
http://img127.exs.cx/img127/3520/small28xl.jpg

now for what i am a little concerned about. when i tried connect the drag link to the pitman arm this is the best i could do. when i put the nut on i can not get the cotter pin through the whole. there is only enough room for half the size of the pin to fit.
http://img160.exs.cx/img160/8203/small35hj.jpg
other pictures: 1st link full right turn, 2nd link full left turn. on the second pic the steering stabalizer bracket almost hits the TB. BTW: happy new years!
http://img67.exs.cx/img67/1802/p10303367nx.jpg

http://img67.exs.cx/img67/3274/p10303351iy.jpg

Cue-Ball
01-01-2005, 02:15 AM
You MUST get a cotter pin in the castle nut on the pitman arm. This is really not safe, should that nut back out you could be in a world of hurt.

Try to tighten the nut a little more and force a cotter pin in there one way or another.

Is that a track bar drop bracket I see on there? Why you have an adjustable bar. I ripped my drop bracket apart when I had one as a temp solution. Really prone to breakage.

BlackDiamondBound
01-01-2005, 02:21 AM
i was able to fit a breaker bar in there and yanked it down as much as i could. if i split the cotter pin i can get half of it all the way through.

yea thats the drop bracket, when Jerod put it on for the BB he put it on. then when he went to put in the 4.5" springs a year later he said he could not take the bracket out because he drilled through somthing......

ELLLLLIOTTTTT
01-01-2005, 03:57 AM
your trackbar and draglink angles look a little tweaked to me. any bumpsteer?

nate
01-01-2005, 07:48 AM
That is Rusty's kit?

Should be installed like this I believe:
http://www.fototime.com/%7B3D8B7378-05BB-45C5-A2D4-298E5F7A8075%7D/picture.JPG


Get rid of that trackbar drop bracket.

As for not being able to get the cotter pin in, just cut one leg off the pin. Or you could grind the notch of the castle nut down a little bit. It's not the end of the world if you don't have a cotter pin, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

OverkillZJ
01-01-2005, 10:48 AM
Ya... That's so not installed the right way...

BlackDiamondBound
01-01-2005, 12:28 PM
before i put it on i searched and found a coupel pictures of it, and half the pics i saw were installed the way i did it and the other half they way that jeep in AW shop was installed. so i just went to fallow the directions that say

"when attaching the drag link to the tie rod, the drag link goes into the tie rod from the top. This will put the nut towards the botton."

so should i flip it around?

OverkillZJ
01-01-2005, 12:50 PM
Maybe we're wrong, but I'd always seen them with the drag link attatching at the front. Interesting....

Cue-Ball
01-01-2005, 08:19 PM
I would see if you could call or email those pix to someone over at Rusty's and ask them which way is the "correct" way to be installed.

Very strange though.

BlackDiamondBound
01-01-2005, 08:37 PM
yea i will have to give rustys a call on monday. i did a couple google searches before i put it on, and i fould four write ups on it, and 2 of them had it one way the other 2 had it the other. after i put it on and took it for a little test drive, i have almost no bumpsteer which i though was a little wierd.
as for that drop bracket being on there still maybe AW will chime in and remind me why he couldnt take it off. :D

BMRisko
01-01-2005, 11:55 PM
If you stuff your driver side during a full left turn, the draglink is going to contact the swaybar mount on the pass side and most likely bend or just not allow flex. Moxe the draglink to the FRONT of the tie-rod. Thats how I've always seen it installed and it gets the drag link further away from things it could contact.

BlackDiamondBound
01-09-2005, 03:40 AM
just an update, rustys said the way i set it up is they way they wanted it for lifts taller then 4.5"

Cue-Ball
01-09-2005, 03:14 PM
How has it worked off road?