here's my steering on my 44

 

here's my steering on my 44

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Is that full hydro? I'm not seeing the drag link.

 

Mine:

 

lol draglink is in plain sight. it goes from the pitman arm to a hi steer arm on the passenger side knuckle.

the track bar looks like it doesnt exist though but its dead parallel and behind the draglink

 

Ok I was wondering Whear the track bar was. Very clean.

 

if you wallets fat theres thishttp://www.rocky-road.com/xjott.html

 

I would suggest looking into a WJ knuckle swap. I was going to do this, but did a full width swap, and in fact collected most of the parts to do this swap.

here are write ups for the knukcle and brake upgrade

http://naxja.org/forum/showthread.ph...t=knuckle+swap

http://naxja.org/forum/showthread.ph...t=knuckle+swap

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=489905

http://www.4x4wire.com/jeep/tech/bra...kles/index.htm

Here is a wirteup from JCR for a YJ but pretty much the same for xj

http://www.jcroffroad.com/WJ.html


I was going to source the needed fab parts locally, but JKS has them

http://store.jksmfg.com/merchant2/me...ode=CherokeeXJ


Enjoy your light tech reading

 

If you want to buy an over priced kit with way to many parts...

Buy FrankZ's or JCR's kit...cheaper and straight to the point.

 

Some very useful information here, thank you all for posting!!

 

I spent months doing research on it...



Mow this is what my current setup looks like

 

Where did you do the research? What are your references, if you don't mind me asking. I would like to do the same research and educate myself.

 

If you want to research high steer, NAXJA is a good source. A number of them there have converted to WJ steering and have write ups on it. It is all done with stock parts with a little modification of the rotors, including a caliper upgrade. What Ping has is a D44 high steer conversion, which can be purchased as a kit from Places like Tereflex or other sources. He also in his pic has spherical rod ends, which can be purchased anywhere. But the real trick is that if you have a daily driver, you need to remake the track bar to be the same length and mount properly at the frame end to keep it parallel with the drag length. Also you will need to remake the axle mount and raise it up about 5" and shift to the driver side by about 4". Here are the only pics I have of mine. But everything drives so much better now, as well as getting rid of mild death wobble I have been chasing for some time.

 

Just cross over, works great, may go to high steer later and add the drivers side arm.. but as of now no need for it. Waggy D44 with chevy flat tops, chevy 1 ton TRE's...

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I leterally did like 4.3 said searched the hell out of Naxja, and Pirate as well. Spent hours reading... then going to local parts store with dial calipers and other measureing devices. When I went to the d44 I stopped persuing doing the wj swap on my d30.

In fact I have a set of knuckles if interested.

 

how often do you have to do an alignment really to worry about it tho?
mine works just fine i have the same setup and i love it, never had it fail nor have i had any problems aligning mine