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Old Aug 31, 2012 | 08:42 PM
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Whats a good track bar for a decent price?
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Old Aug 31, 2012 | 08:56 PM
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many people like the iro double shear track bar. the clayton bar comes with upgrade bigger hardware and so does the rockkrawler
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Old Aug 31, 2012 | 09:07 PM
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this
http://www.seriousoffroadproducts.co...rack-Bar-XJ-ZJ

And this
http://www.seriousoffroadproducts.co...BAR-BRACKET-HD
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Old Aug 31, 2012 | 10:59 PM
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Rough Country gives you the adjustable track bar and the bracket + hardware for $130. A lot cheaper than the above $170 combination and I recommend it because I have it and had no problems with it:

http://www.roughcountry.com/jeep_xtras_1079.html

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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 12:32 AM
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i have that same RC track bar i like it just fine but the heim joint was trash so i replaced it with this http://www.tmrcustoms.com/store/inde...oducts_id=1439 now its great...but if i had it to do all over again id go with this one http://www.ironrockoffroad.com/Merch...egory_Code=PFX
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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 06:25 AM
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Get it and you'll be happy
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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 06:30 AM
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Dont use an rc track bar ive seen many snap from daily driving
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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by thatXJguy
Rough Country gives you the adjustable track bar and the bracket + hardware for $130. A lot cheaper than the above $170 combination and I recommend it because I have it and had no problems with it:

http://www.roughcountry.com/jeep_xtras_1079.html

I'm a Rough Country nut.
Performance, safety, reliability, adjustability, maintainability.......

Some things are more important than the bottom line.

"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten."
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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by 99 Purple XJ
Dont use an rc track bar ive seen many snap from daily driving
That was Rusty's.... never seen a post about an RC track bar snapping... It's rusty's crappy welds



I have the Iron Rock Offroad double sheer trackbar, and love it. I was amazed at how heavy and solid it was when it got here.
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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 08:49 AM
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link... i would never run anything that uses the stock bolts. (Broke a few myself before i upgraded to 1/2" then ultimately 9/16" in my custom trackbar) never fun having to track down a bolt in the middle of the woods and having to install it when for a few bucks more you wouldhave never had an issue. How about the time one of my bolts let go on the street, that could have ended much worse than it did.



Rockkrawler has been the best bargain out there for quite some time in my opinion.
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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Donnie_K
That was Rusty's.... never seen a post about an RC track bar snapping... It's rusty's crappy welds



I have the Iron Rock Offroad double sheer trackbar, and love it. I was amazed at how heavy and solid it was when it got here.
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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 09:49 AM
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RC may not be the best but iv had my jeep on some pretty rough trails and never had a problem but like i said earlier if i had to do over again id but everything from Iron Rock Offroad...Now i do run and love Rustys upper & lower control arm and they are great and very beefy
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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 10:12 AM
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I had the POS RC track bar and replaced it with Serious Offroads RE track bar, good product, good service, and a great price.
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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Rock Toy
I had the POS RC track bar and replaced it with Serious Offroads RE track bar, good product, good service, and a great price.
Now I have to ask.... what makes it a POS? Is that labeling everything POS a requirement of running RE stuff or what?
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Old Sep 1, 2012 | 10:39 AM
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RC makes two different track bars.

One for up to 4" lift and other 4-6" lift (something like that.) The lower lift one uses a TRE for the frame side mount and reuses stock track bar mount. The one for bigger lifts uses a heim joint of some sort Nd comes with a née double shear frame side mount. My dad has one of the later ones. Its plenty beefy. I have a IRO track bar waiting to go in my 91 its super stout... down right heavy in a good way. But I wouldn't call the better RC track bar a POS, and it is a good price. If I wasn't already ordering steering and other things from IRO I would have went with the RC
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