Steering angle advice (Pics)
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Yesterday i wrapped up my installation of some clayton 4.5 coils, rusty's leafs, and a serious steering kit. upon doing the tape measure method alignments for a first drive, i had some death wobble and bump steer. replaced my track bar TRE because it was traveling upwards of 1 inch (rought country 7572 ADJ. track bar) to alleviate most of the death wobble. the steering seems to dart and i still get a little death wobble after hitting a sharp bump with a turned wheel going over 50mph. Against my will a RC drop pitman arm was installed from a 6.5 in kit. My question is, because i've decreased the angle on my drag link subtantially (with crossover steering and DPA), should i need to do the same for the track bar? Should i ditch the DPA and buy a stock one or should i put a heim style track bar with frame side drop bracket? I have some pics, not the best quality but i'm hoping i can get some advice. The steering angles look sufficient to me, so if you guys think i should shut up and just get an alignment professionally and that will fix it let me know. I set the X-flex control arms to 16.5" lower and 15.5" upper as the 4.5" lift say, but upon further research the 6.5" lift also has you set the arms to that length, so a lot of it could be my caster. Any help is appreciated before i blow any more money.
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I wish that of the 72819102k worth of snappn tools my uncle had a magnetic angle finder... But nope. Can you see the pics? If so the angles dont seem bad do they?
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I'm at about 4 inches lift up front with ruffstuff cross over steering and stock control arms and almost no wobble and what wobble i do have is very minimal so i would say your caster need adjusting also.
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