I recently put an Old Man Emu lift kit on my XJ, it's the medium duty kit, roughly 2" in front and 2.5" in the rear. After getting it aligned my steering wheel has to be a few degrees to the left in order to drive straight.

Any idea what I need to adjust to get this straight? I kept the stock sway bar connects, stock track bar, drag link and tie rod. It's already been aligned and that looked good (unless it rapidly degraded after the suspension settling.) Kept the stock upper control arms but the lower ones were replaced with adjustable from Rocky Road Outfitters.

 

Pitman arm is off by a tooth or 2


they really should have adjusted that or at least notified you when you had it aligned.

 

You should be able to adjust the draglink adjuster sleeve to rotate the steering wheel clockwise with the Jeep on the ground and the wheels pointed straight.

 

Maybe there's a lot of slop in my steering wheel, but it rests straight with the wheels straight, it's only while driving that it needs to be tilted left.

 

Take it back and have them adjust it correctly... That's part of the alignment you paid for....PS: adjusting the drag link is the correct answer it took me a few rides to get it perfect after the lift...
Pitman arm has a master spline and is indexed to prevent having 359 degrees of wrong choices...lol...

 

Good point... Ooops.

Either way, I would have turned around and went back to the alignment shop immediately.

 

Mine actually did the exact same thing just today. I could fix it myself.. but I also paid $90 for an alignment so I'll probably end up back there next week to have it fixed.