joeylead

I bought a used rubicon express 5.5" extreme duty lift kit for my 90 cherokee. i will prob be adding a 1-2" spacer to it as i will be running 35's. This kit comes with a heavy duty track bar and track bar drop bracket but no drop pitman arm. Does anyone have experience with this setup? Will I need the drop arm? I know that the trackbar should be parallel to the sterring link and I know I can just install everything and see how they line up, but i would rather do it all at once so i am looking for someone who has actual experience with this. The steering will remain otherwise stock for now. I know I will need to upgrade it eventually, but that will be in the next phse of the build when I have some more money. Thanks!

jeepgrlxj

Usually with any lift above like 3", a drop pitman arm is recommended.

jfiedler

this is what my steering looks like with the drop pitman RE sent out with the kit. i can imagine it would be horrible without. i have the 5.5 long arm

caged

re 5.5 inch has the drop bracket for the track bar, so yeah, a stock zj pitman arm works great.

evilxj85

my dad has this same kit on his 98 with the stock pitman arm, and no problems.

joeylead

So your kit came with the drop pitman arm? On their website, it doesnt list it as a part and te lift i bought didnt come with one so now im confused? But your steering looks good. I can get one pretty cheap so it looks like i ought to.

jfiedler

On the website if lists the drop pitman arm for the lift I bought. Re6300. But regardless your gonna need one. I would say two inch drop should work but I'm not certain

caged

with my re5.5 kit, i had a stock zj pitman arm and worked fine. they have about an inch or so drop over stock xj.

magator

I installed a RE 3.5 kit and the Rubicon tec said no pitman arm drop necessary.