96rokee

So i just replaced my track bar end with the pivot joint its supposed to come with ( apparently the person before me swapped it for a bushing joint.. )

and it appears to have fixed the popping noise coming from my steering.

but now ( not sure if it was like this before ) the steering goes more to the left then the right

to go over my setup i have a 96 jeep cherokee sport
It has a 4.5 in long arm kit by rough country ( included the trackbar i was talking about )
and i have a currie drag link and tie rod setup
also i have a durango steering box with a c-rok brace behind it
and somewhat of a drop pitman arm not sure what brand maybe just off of a zj


here are some pictures to show you how much were talking about.

heres full turn driver


heres the bump stop on the passenger knuckle, full turn driver ( you can also see the pivot joint i put on the end of the trackbar the silver piece upper right )


heres full turn passenger


heres the bump stop on the driver knuckle, full turn passenger


you can see that turned full driver the bump stop is about 1/4-1/2 inch ( it does touch at full lock but when you let go of the wheel it bounces back a bit )
and turned full passenger the bump stop is more like 1-1 1/2 inches

what would cause this??

dev_daddy

You might have your steering gear not centered in your steering gear box. My bet, that is. Research it! And align it.

96rokee

the box came rebuilt from rockauto.com??
if its off alignment couldnt i go back on them and make them fix it??
maybe not worth it tho

96rokee

ima do some measuring tmrw morning and figure out how bad it really is.

dev_daddy

It usually doesnt come centered. Its not a hard adjustment to make!

Littlethunder92

Do you have three holes in your stock track bar bracket??

96rokee

yes.
the guy replaced the pivot joint with a bushing joint. and well the bushing joint didnt pivot like the pivot joint.
and it would put stress on the bolt in the bolt hole untill it made it out of round.
then the bolt would start popping up and down as i turned..

so today when i got the new pivot joint i drilled a new hole cuz the other 2 were ovaled out..

but if this one ovals out ill have to figure out some sort of drop bracket oor something?? any suggestions in case that becomes what i need to do??

96rokee

and how do you make the adjustment??