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Old Jul 19, 2011 | 09:54 AM
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I have the JCR 1 ton UTK. The seller included it when I bought the front diff. Its pretty beefy and i have 35s. Your tires look like pretty big (not sure what siae) but I would suggest the ZJ v8 Tie rod. I bent my stock one a while back and replaced it with the ZJ one when on 33s and it held great. Its a sweet upgrade, and why dont u run that for a bit and hang on to ur old one just incase u bust this one on the trail. If it doesnt break from then on then no need to fix it If the front diff I bought didnt come with it I was gonna run that on 35s. However my buddy with his v8 ZJ was flexing on a big ledge in a parking lot, the way his tire caught it it pulled the steering wheel left and he snapped his adjuster for the drag link and hes on 33s.

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Old Jul 19, 2011 | 10:43 AM
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Thanks everybody! Im going with the currie set up it looks pretty sweet and a local shop had it in stock so its going on this afternoon ill post pics tonight
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Old Jul 19, 2011 | 11:50 AM
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Good call, you wont be dissapointed. It just bolts right in and should be an easy install. One of the things I liked about it is because I didn't have to do any modifications I can keep an extra stock setup in my rig just in case I somehow break the Currie setup.
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Old Jul 20, 2011 | 12:26 AM
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Put it in earlier today and i guess you could say it didnt go too smooth everything bolted up just fine but the back side of the tie rod end on the draglink side contacted the axle side swaybar bracket at full droop. we ended up cutting a notch out of the bracket and pushed it up out of the way and then re adjusted my swaybar link to correct the new lower bracket height, not too big of a deal but good thing i had acess to a welder and plasma cutter. Now everything is good to go, looks great and should be plenty strong!
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Old Jul 20, 2011 | 12:31 AM
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oh i also didnt take any pics as i was too busy trying to find clearance on that tie rod end. Others in the shop took some give me a lil time to get the pics from them
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