how important is it to have a good steering stabilizer? what i mean about good is brand. should I just go for the cheapest one or would it be worth the extra $40 to buy an Old Man Emu stabilizer?

 

Well, I'm new here.
But I have been told that the stabalizers on my Jeep are shot, and well, I love it. I find it easier to correct in Snow and Gravel.

But of course there has to be a negative and that is that it swerves quite alot on the highway. So I only appear to be a drunken sailor.

So I don't think that it would really matter.

 

I just replaced my stock steering stab with a Monroe Magnum SC2928--$35 at NAPA. Made a night and day difference (I live on a very crappy dirt road). From that experience alone, that's all I would do. However, if you're gonna put it through the paces off-road....maybe the extra beef and $$ is a better approach.

Getting that stab off can be a bit of a headache if it's stock. Mine needed two 1/2 hour soaks with PB Blaster and a Pitman Arm Puller to break that tapered bolt free. Don't know what your experience is, but keep that castle nut on when you pop that bolt--it goes off like a bullet.

Good luck....

 

I just replaced my stock stabilizer with a rough country I got on ebay for about $40. I've got to second the last guy on geting the tapered bolt out of the tie rod. It took a few good whacks on a pickle fork.

 

LOL.... I couldn't get it to budge with a pickle fork! And, if you go the Pitman Arm puller route, make sure it's a beefy one! I picked up a heavy duty one at Auto Zone for $14, so not a bad investment for future work....

 

thanks for all the advice. I just ordered the rough country 3 inch lift and added there stabilizer. so hopefully i'll have it all installed next week sometime. thanks again.

 

I guessing you mean Shocks.

A steering stabilizer is very important especially if you run bigger tires and a lift. Any aftermarket should be fine I've got a RE and I wouldn't recomend it but it does the job its just soft