2slw4u

Hey everyone, I recently built my steering set up to go from my Currie to Heim steering, I am slightly hitting the factory track bar mount and will need to build a OTA track bar. I am seeing if anyone has installed the JKS track bra bracket and think its a good set up? I have seen that IronMan4x4 has a bracket set up as well. For those of you who've had done the conversion what are the pros and cons of the way you did it? Just getting some base ideas before i do this. I tried using the search but didn't really find what I was looking for.
Here is the steering i just built.

4.3L XJ

So how much lift is that? It looks like the weight is on the springs?

2slw4u

its the 5.5 RE coils with the IronRock Long arms.

4.3L XJ

Well, not as tall as I thought, but tall nonetheless. You have raised the end of your drag link by a good 3"+. In order to make your track bar work properly and not give you bump steer or death wobble you will have to lower the frame end by that amount or scrap the whole thing and start over. Personally, I scrapped mine and have been very happy with it for 5+ years now with no bump steer or death wobble

2slw4u

I actually dont have any bumpsteer or deathwobble issues currently. With the over the axle track bar, the track bar should match relatively close to what the drag link angle is. Which in turn should virtually eliminate any bumpsteer that may happen. With the new steering I haven't had a better driving jeep in a while.
4.3 Xj do you have a over axle track bar set up? I'm trying to weigh my options on what bracket would ideally work better. And seeing if anyone has used the iron man one? The JKS bracket to weld on is about 48 bucks and the iron man is about 70 bucks shipped seeing if the iron man would be a better route or not.

4.3L XJ

I had a Tereflex high steer and then converted to a WJ knuckle with the drag link OTK.



Here is a view of the drag link and track bar



I moved the whole thing to the side to keep the drag link and track bar the same length and parallel.

JK253

I have CavFab's steering and track bar, but their OTA bracket wouldn't work with my truss without some modification so I just used the Artec bracket instead. It's pretty much the same, just notched out properly to mount up to the truss.

SatiricalHen

I got a used bracket from a member on here and then bought some bungs, heims, and DOM tube and brought it all to a local guy and had him weld it up. Turned out pretty cheap and drives pretty good. I occasionally daily it and I drive it to every trail it sees

aka"dude"

I used the JKS OTA Bracket and shortened my RE1660 track bar. If I remember correctly its 1" ID.

2slw4u

Awesome Thank you all for the info and pictures! has helped me alot actually haha