Originally Posted by lucknuts

Been tracking down a steering problem, went to grease the nipples hehe then found that the boot or bushing or whatever it is at the end of the drag link where it connects to the pitman arm is split wide open allowing any grease I try and add to squirt right out.

I plan on replacing all these rubber things as soon as possible but we don't have the cash at the time to do it now. How bad is this though? Is the drag link going to break off on the highway and kill everyone? Or, will it likely hold together for a couple more weeks?

Also, I'm having a helluva time trying to find replacements for all these rubber boots and bushings. The descriptions of the parts leave me confused and the only diagram I can find at a store, jeep4x4center, doesn't look like mine. There seem to be only two bars shown when mine has three.

Does anyone have a list of what these parts are all called (the ends and/or bushings) and maybe they're alternate names too?

I see it's called a center link or a drag link depending on which store I check. Crazy, it's like how they name streets around here.

Originally Posted by xj_maniac_newb

It's not going to break off. Mines been like that forever, I just keep filling it with as much grease as it'll hold.

Originally Posted by DFlintstone

Side note. Chasing play in my steering that was the one that went. Changing that and another issue took care of my play.