93_xjcherokee

X2. If you get death wobble after lifting and you have a new stabilizer, the stabilizer will mask the death wobble making things worse in the long run. I don't run a stabilizer and have no DW at all

Tsaani97xj

Sigh. You dont need a stabilizer/damper for your steering to function. It was designed into the system to dampen bump steer and lessen the harshness of jolts to the steering system. It serves a purpose and an OEM replacement is enough.

toasterknight

If you have bumpsteer you have a problem. It's there simply to make you feel bumps less.

Tsaani97xj

Unless your track bar and drag link are exactly the same length and perfectly parallel you have some degree of bump steer. It may not be severe or dangerous but it exists. Adding the stabilizer lessens the effects. If your steering is not custom designed and near perfect a stabilizer is beneficial. If it wasnt, the factory engineers wouldn't have wasted money on it.

I am not arguing that you need a stabilizer just that it serves a purpose and is beneficial. Also that an OEM replacement will serve the majority of builds just fine.

93_xjcherokee

Like the engineers wouldn't have wasted money on things like a heater control valve? Some things are needed and some things you can bypass or go without. Steering stabilizer is one of them. I don't even run a sway bar. No bump steer or death wobble at all. I do not condone driving without a sway bar and to the op... You should keep all your steering components intact and not remove stuff without replacing it but just saying. Been driving a year and a half with no swaybar or stabilizer and have no issues