So I've got the Jeep (no lift) in the garage and am basically doing an entire front end rebuild because I can't find a thing loose to attribute to my DW. Bought some junkyard tires to hold me over (belts were showing) till I need 4wd and that pretty much made it go away; I'm thinking the alignment was off by a LOT (one front tire is much shorter than the other side, and more rectangular). But I've got $500+ worth of new stuff in the garage so I figured I'd just have at it anyway.

Did the ball joints, wheel hubs (yeah, not really DW related but at $70 a pair might as well), and tore out the tie rod system. Then I'm pulling out the track bar and I notice the upper bracket (drivers side) that it mounts to is so rotted I can almost stick my finger through it. Sticks out like a sore thumb because everything around it isn't like that at all. Getting that nut out (& the cotter pin) for the track bar took about an hour.

Did a search online and I guess what all the buzz is is that there's basically 3 options to replace it: factory direct for $205 (I'm thinking not), used (replace a rusty part with a slightly less rusty part), or get one for a 0" to whatever inch lift. Problem is they all come with track bars, and I've already got a new one with poly bushings that I don't feel like paying to replace.

Anywhere where you can just get those brackets, even if it's for a 0"+ lift? Parts stores don't even have a category for them, let alone the actual part.

For a '95. I think I found the lower bracket a few times, the upper kind of wraps around the side of the unibody frame and is much bigger than the ones I keep seeing.

Tried rockauto, napa, autozone, ebay, and for the heck of it, google shopping. No go. Almost thinking of fabbing one up myself, but I think it would f-up where the axle is supposed to sit or the alignment or something. Measuring with that many bends isn't really a skill I have. Getting the new tie-rod system built to a drivable condition is going to be challenging enough.

 

Maybe one of the manufactures will sell you a mount without the track bar or just sell the track bar here yourself.

 

gonna have to lift it and get an adjustable, fab one up, or hit the local pick n pull. I went throught trying to find one when I lifted mine and ended up just going with a double shear adjustable from iron rock that replaced the whole bracket and track bar. Of course that won't work on a stocker.

 

agreed I don't know of anywhere to purchase a replacement stock one. Either grab one off a junkyard XJ, or buy a new trackbar with double shear bracket (look at IRO or Clayton) and sell your current one.

 

i got a stock one thats still in good shape, just took it off